Power Rip-Off
So the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Bruce Birchman decides that the taxpayers of California owe power suppliers $1.2 billion (Dec. 13). The time has come for Gov. Gray Davis and Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer to demand that, first, we get our $9 billion back now -- the courts be damned; second, that the infamous long-term “contracts” (really blackmail) signed under the threat of blackouts be rescinded; and finally, that Ken Lay be brought to California and tried for his leadership of the criminals involved in this colossal rip-off.
Rusty Austin
Culver City
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