Anyone remember the Summer of 2000? The fake “power crisis” in California that eventually paved the way for the Recall of Gray Davis?
Remember the claims by Rush and Friends that it was all due to the Environmental Whacko’s who wouldn’t allow California to build more power plants? That Davis and California had only themselves to blame because they were out of touch, birkenstock-wearing Libs who finally were getting their comeuppance for their failed tree-hugging environmental policies?
Remember those Environmental Whackos who used FACTS to explain that the “power shortage” was a fraud created and manipulated by the Power Marketeers like Enron and Reliant? (You may not remember that part, since the Media, as “Liberal” as we all know they are, didn’t seem to get the word out on that as well as they got the Conservatives completely made-up spin out there).
Well, today, a Federal Grand Jury has finally begun the process of correcting the record with it’s indictment of Reliant for manipulating the Power Markets during the “Crisis of 2002”. From Reuters:
According to the indictment, the plan worked and Reliant Energy Services allegedly reaped millions in illegal profits.
Shocking! Whodathunkit?! It goes on:
It then dissemanated false and misleading information to the market that wrongly attributed the shut-downs to environmental limitations and maintenance problems, according to the indictment.
No! Really?!
Oddly enough, DittoHeads didn’t get this breaking news today from Rush and his stack of stuff, but I’m sure Sean will be getting to it any minute. Just after he pulls his tongue out of Condi’s ass.
If I recall correctly, you blamed Enron, Cheney, Bush, and Texas.
That would be correct. Well, sorta. It was Bush’s FERC that failed completely to do their job of "Regulating" (that’s what the R stands for) the behavior of these companies. The head of the FERC was Dubya’s buddy, an Enron man and Energy Company lobbyist. The Governor (at the time) asked the FERC to do their job and they didn’t. So the courts will have to pick up where Bush and his oil buddies failed to be concerned with – your favorite phrase – The Rule of Law.