Consumer Group Asks Bush To Suspend Power Deregulation

Energy Info Source

A consumer advocacy group called Monday for U.S. President George W. Bush to halt initiatives to deregulate the U.S. power grid until more is known about the cause of last week's power failures.

In a letter to the president, Douglas Heller, an advocate for the Santa Monica, Calif.-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights says a moratorium on deregulation of wholesale power is appropriate until government investigators can pin down the cause of the blackouts.

Heller calls for a special government probe of deregulation's role in the cascading grid failures. "The incentives of an unregulated energy market contradict the mandates of public safety and the American economy," he says. -

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Sorry, but the naivete shown by these earnest idiots just evoked a horse laugh from me! Ask Bush to stop or suspend deregulation? Do you know how much money deregulation puts in the pockets of his cronies, who then turn around and contribute to his campaign fund? What you're asking him to do is not raise so much money for his 2004 election run, and he's going to need every penny of it to persuade millions of down-and-out voters that they're down-and-out only because the minority Democrats won't let him drill in ANWR.

Besides, you're writing to the Dim Son from deepest Bluestatia, and he doesn't give a rip for Democratic strongholds.

It draws Bush* into the open on the issue. When Bush makes a statement on this (and he will to placate his industrial buddies) that will clear up any doubt as to who is his constituency. Politically active groups will gobble up his statement. AARP comes to mind. AARP does not like anything for any purpose that takes money out of the pockets of America's retired population.

Now, if we were to expect Bush* to capitulate to a consumer advocacy group, then we are kidding ourselves. As I mentioned, there is an optimistic side to this gesture.

I remember my broker telling me this.

So, Good Luck and Best Wishes
from the folks w/ the
Whiphand.

Opinion- nothing changes til
we have a foreign setback.
Bush thrown out
Stock Crash
Another Blackout

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