[lewislynn]

Then it's not deregulated is it?. If it was deregulated there wouldn't be any refunds would there? And as this article illustrates (that you can't grasp), what part of price is not effected by "transportation" cost?

A ten-fold jump in wholesale electricity prices caused a series of blackouts and the bankruptcy of California's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, owned by PG&E Corp.

As I said before, you can't be a little bit pregnant. And energy deregulation is a phony scam on the consumer.

[Dog Gone]

In order to meet your insane definition, deregulation could only occur if something was completely exempt from any law whatsoever in the country.

The price on the spot market for natural gas was not affected by transportation costs whatsoever. If the demand wasn't there, the prices would fall, even below cost if necessary, to move it.

This story is a case of a pipeline company who was hosing other companies, and it has nothing to do with the consumer at all.

None of this will change your repeated mantra, which you repeat endlessly in spite of overwhelming evidence.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

As I said before, you can't be a little bit pregnant. And energy deregulation (In California ) is a phony scam on the consumer.

I don't think we disagree on this statement!