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

To: American Spirit who wrote (78721)	8/1/2006 7:07:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Enron led the way for all the energy companies to create the artificial shortages and gouge us in 2000-2001. Even if you assertion that Enron manipulated the CA electricity market to fix prices is true, it has nothing to do with the world oil market. Enron is/was not an oil company. And the CA electricity market was a very unusual one, with all sorts of rigid regulations in some areas combined with very little regulation in others. Absent such unusual circumstances its hard to manipulate markets to fix prices. Even OPEC has often struggled in its attempts to do this. Another part of their scheme was to kill the Kerry-McCain CAFE standards bill in 2001...Bushies also killed the bill that would have made air-conditioners more efficient. Arguing against regulatory requirements for higher efficiency or economy is not price-fixing and doesn't resemble price-fixing. Should those laws have been passed? Would they have helped? You can make an argument for yes, but its a separate issue from any price-fixing allegations.