[snopercod]

WHY was the legislation written that way and who paid for it?

Beats me. AB1890 was one thing, but the implementing regulations are another. The feds are involved as well, with the "tariffs".

Who can figure it out? I can't, but Enron seems to have.

[Carry_Okie]

Here is the point few of us seem to remember: Gerry Brown, John Bryson, Steve Peace, Gray Davis, and others have known each other for 25 years. They are all lawyers, and despite what Dog Gone says, they aren't dumb. They are power hungry, ambitious, manipulative ideologues who will go to any lengths to get what they want and believe that the media and their monopoly on State government will help them get away with it.

They hate suburban development in this state, and desire a balkanized society where the rich toast each other in wine parties at their eco-mansions at the expense of slave labor. That is what they want and that is what they are building. They hate the middle class because it “consumes” resources that they want for themselves.

To call the way deregulation turned out in California unplanned or foolish requires ignoring the way these people have either accepted massive financial support from or directly worked for elements of the energy business. It ignores their individual histories and long associations. It negates their involvement in lawsuits designed to create the necessary underlying shortage that is the real foundation of the financial crisis in electrical prices.

Needless to say, it is of course in the interest of this moneyed elite to profit as much as possible along the way. They restrict urban real estate and profit on the scarcity. They finance the loans to the State and click their tongues and waggle their fingers solemnly when it needs more money. They import immigrunts to keep the wages down and finance a bureaucracy to serve them and eat at middle class taxes. They support gay rights and destroy middle class families with drugs and rotten schools. In short, they go right on building their fascist banana democracy.

So, should it be confusing that the Slave Party is building the same kind of state in California that existed in the old South? Why should that be any surprise? In a global economy where exporting capital to play the same game is very profitable, why shouldn't industry come right along, especially when the RICOnuts give them few options to do otherwise?