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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (7956)	3/17/2004 12:57:49 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Follow the money. Who gained from the phony energy crisis and who was in political and economic alliance? Obviously since the day after Jeffords switched parties thre was suddenly a glut of energy on the market despite no significant production increases, the whole "shortage" was not just hyped but criminally manipulated. And look at the timing of this so-called crisis. It began as Bush-Cheney were nominated and it ran until Jeffords switched parties giving the Democrats subpoena and special prosecutor powers. Then look at Enron. The engineers on how to rig the markets and make $$$ with phony trades of non-existent energy. Enron was as close as any corporate gets to a political campaign. Not only were they Bush's largest contributor but they ran B-C operations out of their own offices and let B-C use their corporate jets, etc. Then look at #2 Reliant Energy. James Baker's company. Another major B-C figurehead. Look at Cheney's tight relationships with the power plant industry, very-very chummy. The connections go on and on and on. Why don't we know more about it? Because Bush's FERC covered it up rather than investigating it, and refused to award California reimbursements. Basically the cops were nowhere in sight, no one to enforce deregulated crimes such as this. In fact we do not even have laws with teeth in them for opunishing gougers, no matter how big the gouging. In 2000-2001 it cost consumers and everyone else somewhere in the 100 billion range. Thanks alot Texas.