FERC Gives Another Energy Company A Slap On the Wrist For Ripping Off California
Latest Smoking Gun Evidence Shows Reliant Energy Withheld Power From Consumers During Height of Energy Crisis
By Jason Leopold for Scoop.
A few weeks before the meeting between Bush and Davis, Vice President Dick Cheney, who chairs Bush’s energy task force, was interviewed by PBS’ Frontline for a special series on California’s energy crisis. During the interview, Cheney flat-out denied that energy companies ripped off California.
“The problem you had in California was caused by a combination of things – an unwise regulatory scheme, because they didn’t really deregulate,” Cheney said in the May 17 Frontline interview. “Now they