aspasia wrote:

*(Utilities have always been high in So.Calif. But special thanks must
go to Bush's Enron and other energy crook friends who were caught on
tape joking about shafting "Grandma Millie"" during the artificial
energy crisis in Calif a few years ago that was engineered right out
of the White House for the benefit of its great friends and
contributors. Suddenly plants were taken off line for "maintenance"
-- hmmm...what a coincidence. Law of supply and demand kicks in.
Also anybody can check out the precipitous drop in natural gas rates
when El Paso's monopoly ended.)

The White House did not pass laws in California regulating power generation
prices nor did the White House lock in elevated rates on the futures market.
Nor did the White House prevent energy companies from building new power
plants in the state.

You can't blame the energy companies when California bent over and said
"Screw me!"

P.T. Barnum said: "Never let a sucker keep his money." It's the American
way.