You see, he was a non-union operator. The chairman of the California Public Utilities Commission, Loretta Lynch was appointed to that powerful position last May by the Governor with absolutely no prior experience in the field of energy. She was an activist lawyer with the Clinton White House and her responsibilities were for damage control in the Whitewater Investigation. In a speech last week in Orange County she stated that when the state owns the transmission lines, so called Green Power will have priority for transmission. That appointment is not right.
Energy is an easy subject made difficult by government policy makers.
That is a big winner in the energy game. But a note of caution, conservation alone will not solve this problem. Vice President Dick Cheney is correct in this. New generating capacity is urgent and all of us must demand that the government allow as many different sources of energy as possible to be developed using reasonable rules for the protection of the environment. The supply goes up and the price goes down.