Interesting article on the politics and economics of the California power crisis at http://reason.com/0106/fe.ml.power.html

"Power Tripped: Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State."

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), June 15, 2001

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All those words and not a mention of the record
utility outages that was the cause of this crisis
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-- spider (spider0@usa.net), June 15, 2001.

Good point, spider. No mention of pipeline problems, either.

Clearly there was a confluence of bad politics, bad planning, *and* bad supply. Sort of "Y2K as the straw that broke the camel's back"?

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), June 15, 2001.