> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Tarr > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 1:49 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: RE: Gray Davis Recall Election Set for Sep-Oct > > At 07:51 AM 7/25/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Behalf Of pencimen > > > >... > > > > > Enron _and_ the Bush administration. > > > > > > Or is that what you meant? > > > >Sort of. Except that there's some superset that they're both part of, > which > >I dare not name. ;-) > > > >Nick > > > But the problem is, Bush accepted Enron's money and did not give them > anything in return,while Clinton gave them concessions. The state's energy > problems didn't suddenly appear Jan 2001.
I don't like Alternet because they're very biased, but they did have an interesting article about this here: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13281 The short version: some concessions were given, even though the Bush administration stopped short of doing anything overt. > And I truly don't know about this: were there energy problems last year, > or > so far this year? I don't know if it was the result of an energy crisis or not, but 1,200 people in Hollywood were without power for a while on Friday: http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2359076/detail.html > Yes the price may still be astronomical, but supply > should be the more pressing concern. I may have this completely wrong, > that > the 2001 energy problems weren't supply, but was from California not > willing to pay for the energy it needed, and this is directly related to > an > Enron deal. A more accurate assessment seems to be that Enron used exorbitant, unfair fees to blackmail California consumers and threatened to withhold power if they weren't paid. >From an article in the SF Chronicle, quoted on corpwatch.org: http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=2530 Excerpt: "SACRAMENTO, California -- Energy traders for Enron used elaborate schemes with nicknames like "Death Star" and "Get Shorty" to manipulate California's electricity market and boost profits, according to internal company memos released by federal regulators Monday. The memos -- jaw-dropping in their frank descriptions of how a sophisticated operation exploited California for financial gain -- enraged consumer advocates and state officials and prompted Sen. Dianne Feinstein to call for a federal criminal investigation of the company's behavior as the lights went out in California. A state senator who has spent a year investigating the energy crisis called the documents "tremendous" proof that California's power debacle had been caused by companies looking to make money and not by energy shortages." Jon Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
