Quote:
"Months of power companies intentionaly taking plants off-line, only for pure profit by the friends of our leaders... Declaring bankruptcy only to keep the money squirreled away. Then only being charged for ripping off thier employees, but not the entire west coast. But you live in Texas, there must be something wrong... They wouldn't do it to thier own state, would they?"
Darn right they would. Although this "blackout" was legitimate (in terms of incredibly high temps for this time of year), deregulation is the biggest sham pulled on the American consumer since the Savings and Loan scandals.
On the other hand, I'm amazed this morning at the "man on the street" interviews of people complaining about a 15 minute outage. They have no concept of a black start situation (maybe the guys from New York would like to trade places).
