[Reeses]

Check out DUK's stock price. If they were gouging, where did the profits go? If they are crooks, they are very unsuccessful ones.

Gov. Davis caused the orginal problem by mis-management, by forcing PG&E and Edison to sell power for a price lower than they had to pay for it. They quickly ran out of money which made it impossible to pay the generators. That caused the shortage. The socialists, whether they live in Moscow or Sacramento, have a 100% failure rate running any economy.

[dalereed]

That price was a bid, California didn't have to accept it but they did which makes it binding contract.

I hope that if it gets to court Duke wins and California has to pay costs.

BTW I live in California.