Subject: Energy Antics Oh, Behave!.htm
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:29:29 -0700 (PDT)

Jeff
 
Today's LA Times editorial  revived the Lockyer quote.  It is remarkable (and troubling for Enron)  that Lockyer's political peers / rivals have not taken  him to task for his outrageous remark; nor have the major  newspapers.  In Today's editorial, the usually conservative LA Times  refers to Lockyer as having "boosted the rhetoric a notch."  (I'd hate  to witness two or three notches.)
 
This lack of  criticism could foreshadow a contagious attitude that powerful Enron is in  fact the one to blame (facts be damned).  Given Enron's high profile policy  and fundraising ties to the Bush administration and Governor Gray  Davis' war with President Bush and Texas energy companies, there could be  more turbulence ahead.  Fasten your seatbelts and be on the  ready.
 
Kevin
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Bill Lockyer boosted the rhetoric a  notch by declaring he would like to personally escort the chairman of  Enron Corp. "to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude  who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey."' Meanwhile, President Bush and  Vice President Dick Cheney have blamed California for causing its own  problems with a "harebrained" deregulation scheme and mocked the state's  power purchases and conservation programs. It's been fun. Now it's time  for our leaders to act like adults.        Davis and Bush always will have their  political differences, but the economies of both the state and the nation  are endangered by California's energy situation. These leaders need to  work together as cooperatively as possible, starting next week when Bush  makes his first visit to California as president.        Davis wrote Bush Wednesday offering to  meet with him during his California visit. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer  said the president looks forward to discussing energy and other issues.  Good start. Let's hope the conversation is civil and that the civility  spreads.       No matter how much California  has been abused by the power companies, and it absolutely has, the state  still needs them to help solve the crisis caused by shortages of electric  power generation this year and next. Usually, the biggest targets of  official and public wrath are the investor-owned utilities such as  Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. But not this  time because, in the view of the state, the utilities have been bled dry  by the power generators' stratospheric prices. The state had to take over  the purchase of power when the generators refused to extend any more  credit to Edison and PG&E. Legal recourse should be pursued, but the  threatening rhetoric needs to subside.        State lawmakers are right to be upset  with the White House for refusing to use its authority to set reasonable  temporary wholesale price controls. And Davis is justifiably upset with  Bush and with Cheney, who said the only solution was to build more power  plants--ignoring the fact that the state is building 10 plants now, with  five more on the way, and that the only way to control wholesale power  rates is for Washington to cap them.       If  the state hadn't bought the power, the generators would have let the  lights go out. Davis needs to deliver that message, quietly and  persuasively, while Bush is in California. And Bush needs to listen  respectfully, like an adult.   [IMAGE]Search the archives  of the Los  Angeles Times for similar stories. You will not be charged to look for  stories, only to retrieve one.  	
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