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To: geode00 who wrote (18637)	5/24/2005 9:04:08 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361365

The reason that the FERC is "leading the charge for further deregulation", is because that is what the law said the FERC should be doing (I don't know if the law has been repealed). The Congress of the United States passed a law ordering the deregulation of wholesale electricity prices (in 1993 - a Congress controlled by the Democratic Party), this law charged the FERC with the responsibility for deregulating those markets. re:"...Despite the continuing robbery of Western ratepayers, the push to privatize the nation's electrical service marches forward. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is leading the charge for further deregulation. But Republican and Democratic senators from the West last week began to demand answers about FERC's plans for a huge new step in its attempts to create a more market-based electrical system..."