Premise:
"A predetermined cost to be assigned to products produced."
Hypothesis: They made up prices to whatever they felt like.

no

Premise:
"uh-huh yeah that's what i like yep right and i love that"
Hypothesis: Yes, I love that.

yes

Premise:
"This rule would also require public utilities to implement standards of conduct to functionally separate transmission and wholesale power merchant functions."
Hypothesis: The public utilities were trying to fight the regulations.
it is not possible to tell