The return of the man from Tennessee. Bias and the media. The great tax cut myth. But Goldberg says a big part of the blame can be placed on the utilities for the lack of sufficient supply as well.
Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy.
In her testimony before a special state Assembly committee convened to craft a solution to the crisis, PUC president Loretta Lynch criticized the utilities for not entering into earlier long-term agreements to guarantee lower prices for wholesale electricity. Foster cited the 1995 PUC decision in which the commission discusses the mandate for utilities to sell their power to the Power Exchange. The breakdown in harmony between the PUC and the utilities isn't the only fallout beginning to accumulate in the wake of the deregulation debacle. One has only to look as far as the rise and fall of Steve Peace, the chairman of the committee that formulated the deregulation bill, to see how it's beginning to injure people. The movie, which has earned more than its share of guffaws in the halls of the state Capitol, is complete with numerous cuts of Peace as chairman of the committee that formulated AB 1890, stating his opposition to deregulation for the record.