Schwarzenegger to push energy deregulation

[realFedUp]

little local paper...I'm sure this is in other publications.
Of course, we knew Arnie and his Wilson team was going to
push this original Wilson deregulation plan even further...

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E11848%257E1740160,00.html

Schwarzenegger to push energy deregulation
By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- No stranger to sequels, California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to sell the state on the virtues of electricity deregulation for a second time, despite the expensive legacy of the first attempt.

Schwarzenegger's energy advisers say they will bring a fresh approach to deregulation this time, avoiding past mistakes that led to rolling blackouts, insolvent utilities, market manipulation and a $20 billion debt customers must spend the next decade repaying.

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Schwarzenegger aides say his proposed reforms are mostly the work of three men: Stanford's Sweeney, who wrote a book analyzing California's electricity crisis; Sean Randolph, president of the San Francisco- based Bay Area Economic Forum , a group that represents business and government interests; and Lawrence Makovich, a senior director for Cambridge Energy Research Associates , a Massachusetts research firm.

The men met with Schwarzenegger last month and then drew up an energy policy based largely on their research, Sweeney and Randolph said in interviews. Makovich didn't return a message.

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[meti57b]

1. schvantzenagger's reforms are most probably the work of ken lay ....

subsequent to that secret meeting they had at the height of the CA energy crisis.

[realFedUp]

2. We're still waiting for that expose in the LA Times

but it hasn't been 7 weeks yet...:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

3. DUH... Pete Wilson, redux

Kelly-fornya is screwed.:(

[TreasonousBastard]

4. OMFG...

does he really think they can get it right this time?

[realFedUp]

5. right for them....

Ken Lay's hoping so.

[SoCalDem]

6. They don't care if it's "right", just so it's

rightwing, and benefits their benefactors.

[JHB]

7. Sweeney was an apologist for Enron

Newsmax.com ^ | May 16, 2002 | NewsMax.com Wires (as if you couldn't predict the source -- JHB)

Professor James Sweeney of Stanford University, the author of a book on the electricity crisis, has examined the Enron memos. Sweeney concludes: "No strategy of Enron's that is identified in the memo could cause the California electricity crisis, nor even significantly increase the overall price level. Most exploited clumsy elements of the market rules."
...
Enron, being a corrupt company, sought to profit in corrupt ways. It was, in Sweeney's assessment, "a petty thief ... shoddy, possibly illegal." But for Davis's attempt to pin the blame for the whole crisis on Enron, Sweeney finds this analogy: "A destructive earthquake takes place. Someone is found looting a store. The mayor of the city has a press conference showing the felon and asserting that the felon was responsible for the earthquake."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/684546/posts

[realFedUp]

8. Thanks JHB

for this info.

[camero]

14. HAHA

a $9 billion petty thief. Sorry, I don't call that a petty thief.

[tom_paine]

9. Wow, I couldn't see THAT coming.

I'm afraid that the Imperial Province of Kallie-fornia is about to get reamed a second time...probably the first of many by the Busheviks who hate your guts anyway.

I feel for all the Free Americans trapped in Occupied Bushevik Territory. But remember, in many ways we are all traped behind the Televised Curtain of Bushevik Occupied Imperial Amerika.

[realFedUp]

10. but won't those Arnold voters be glad he's pro-choice...

:eyes:

[htuttle]

11. Now that he's already been elected...

...I suppose it's appropriate for Californians to begin to learn what his political platform is...

:eyes:

[Armstead]

12. Yeah kind of funny this wasn't mentioned in his campaign

he didn't get up there and say "And energy deregulation worked so well the last time, we're going to do it again."

[tom_paine]

13. Funny that.

What's even funnier is that Imperial Amerika has degenerated to such a point that he didn't even have to!

Yeah, funny in the same way the Old Soviet Union was funny.

A real barrel of laughs, Imperial Amerika is.

[realFedUp]

15. Well, THAT'S not entertaining...

I feel sick all over again.

[sangh0]

16. Great News

This should go down like the Hindenburg went down - In flames.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. And this is news HOW? HELLO!!! It was his plan from day ONE!

[Capn Sunshine]

18. This is clearly articulated in his campaign site

http://www.joinarnold.com/en/agenda/#C1

"As Governor, I will:

Issue a clear energy strategy that focuses on attracting new investments in California. Align the state's 13 energy agencies with the overall state strategy and make certain that they issue clear and consistent guidance to the regulated communities. Also evaluate the California Power Authority to determine if its purpose can be reformed to support a sustainable energy policy.
Affirm the commitment to private power by dismantling the California Power Authority (CPA) and transferring to other agencies those functions (if any) determined to support a sustainable energy policy. Its current mission to build and operate publicly owned power plants is in direct competition with private industry and serves only to divert private investment in electricity generation and transmission away from the state. "

There's way more on this page, but I have to go throw up now. :puke: