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  • Howard Kaloogian: Now we know who created Calif. energy crisis

    07/05/2008 1:36:43 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 13 replies · 244+ views
    The Providence Journal ^ | July 3, 2008 | Howard Kaloogian
    Howard Kaloogian is a lawyer and a former member of the California State Assembly. GITMO AND GUNS are getting all the press. But energy mavens are talking about another recent far-reaching — but little noted — U.S. Supreme Court decision on the California energy crisis: It took them seven years but they finally figured it out. The revisionist part of the story is well known: Big bad oil traders like Enron gamed the market and drove up energy costs fifteen-fold. The blackouts, insolvent utilities and economic chaos are remembered as the worst energy crisis in American history. But the Supreme...