The most recent example of their settled prejudices was on display last week in coverage of the California power problem. As everyone knows, Californians are being forced to endure rolling blackouts because the state's power supply is suffering a drastic shortage.
Unreliable power is a mark of primitive countries.
California is suffering rolling blackouts in response to a power shortage thought to have been caused by deregulation. So while power generators were able to increase and decrease the prices they charged utilities, the utilities were forbidden to pass the higher rates on to consumers. The Legislature cut rates for electricity by 10 percent and then froze those prices for six years. Recently, wholesale prices for power have jumped. The utilities have been squeezed to the point of bankruptcy.