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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (348957)	1/28/2003 2:05:05 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

But the deregulation was in place for years.

To: JBTFD who wrote (348957)	1/28/2003 2:48:01 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Watson has crushed you on this argument. Back to the sandbox with you. ~SB~

To: JBTFD who wrote (348957)	1/29/2003 1:43:16 AM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769667

Half right. It started during Clinton's administration, the summer of 2000. The manipulation continued thru probably the first half of 2001. Governor Davis wrote to President Clinton directly, (in August, 2000) complaining about California's broken energy markets, high wholesale electricity prices, and the manipulation of California's market by "out of state producers". By the time Bush was sworn in, President Clinton and Governor Davis had already declared a State of Emergency in California's electricity markets, and two of California's largest power retailers (PG&E and SCE) had stopped paying their suppliers (and in PG&E's case, stopped bond payments). re:"The manipulation of energy prices by Enron and others is well documented and happened under Bush."