[CyberAnt]

This is exactly what happened in CA - leftists stopped the new power plants. There were plans for THIRTY and Dufus stopped production of them.

After all the blackouts and other stuff, Dufus made a big grandstand when ONE power plant came on-line. However, the others he had publicly approved, he quietly stopped again!

[Troublemaker]

Regarding California - Enron wanted to open up a wind farm in Gorman, CA and was stopped by environmental protests (namely the Audubon Society) who were concerned about birds in the "windmills". Wind farms have also been halted in Tehachapi among other places ("It's for the birds"). So much for alternative energy.