Message-ID: <20165393.1075852658814.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:29:29 -0700 (PDT) From: kevinscott@onlinemailbox.net To: jeff.skilling@enron.com Subject: Energy Antics Oh, Behave!.htm Cc: skean@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bcc: skean@enron.com X-From: Kevin Scott @ENRON X-To: Skilling, Jeff X-cc: Steve Kean X-bcc: X-Folder: \JSKILLIN (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Skilling-J X-FileName: JSKILLIN (Non-Privileged).pst Jeff =20 Today's LA Times editorial revived the Lockyer quote. It is remarkable (a= nd troubling for Enron) that Lockyer's political peers / rivals have not t= aken him to task for his outrageous remark; nor have the major newspapers= . In Today's editorial, the usually conservative LA Times refers to Locky= er as having "boosted the rhetoric a notch." (I'd hate to witness two or = three notches.) =20 This lack of criticism could foreshadow a contagious attitude that powerfu= l 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 Govern= or Gray Davis' war with President Bush and Texas energy companies, there c= ould be more turbulence ahead. Fasten your seatbelts and be on the ready= . =20 Kevin 213-926-2626 =20 [IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE] =09[IMAGE] [IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] =09Home | Discussions | Print Edition | Archives | Site Map = | Home Delivery | Advertise | Feedback | Help [IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] News Politics Entertainment music ,= movies , art , TV , restaurants [IMAGE] Business Travel Marketplace jo= bs , homes , cars , rentals , classifieds [IMAGE] Sports Commentary Shop= ping [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Editorials= , Letters, Op-Ed [IMAGE] [IMAGE] TOP STORIES * We Aren't That Despera= te * Energy Crisis as Political Payback * Hand-Held Cell Phones, Dr= iving Don't Mix MORE [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] STORIES BY DATE FOR TH= IS SECTION 5/25 | 5/24 | 5/23 | 5/22 | 5/21 | 5/19 [IMAGE] = DAILY SECTIONS Front Page "A" Section California [IMAGE] Business = Sports Calendar [IMAGE] So. Cal. 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"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 c= ausing its own problems with a "harebrained" deregulation scheme and mocke= d the state's power purchases and conservation programs. It's been fun. No= w it's time for our leaders to act like adults. Davis and Bush alwa= ys will have their political differences, but the economies of both the st= ate 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. Da= vis wrote Bush Wednesday offering to meet with him during his California v= isit. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said the president looks forward to dis= cussing energy and other issues. Good start. Let's hope the conversation i= s 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 offi= cial and public wrath are the investor-owned utilities such as Southern Ca= lifornia 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 ge= nerators' 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 need= s to subside. State lawmakers are right to be upset with the White = House for refusing to use its authority to set reasonable temporary wholes= ale price controls. And Davis is justifiably upset with Bush and with Chen= ey, who said the only solution was to build more power plants--ignoring th= e 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 w= ould have let the lights go out. Davis needs to deliver that message, quie= tly and persuasively, while Bush is in California. And Bush needs to liste= n respectfully, like an adult. [IMAGE]Search the archives of the Los A= ngeles Times for similar stories. You will not be charged to look for stor= ies, only to retrieve one. =09 News Politics Entertainment music , movies , art , TV , restaurants = [IMAGE] Business Travel Marketplace jobs , homes , cars , rentals , cla= ssifieds [IMAGE] Sports Commentary Shopping [IMAGE] =09[IMAGE]=09 = Copyright ? 2001 Los Angeles Times=09 Software, Videos/DVD's, Music and Other Free Stuff!!! =09