By violating the Federal Power Act and charging illegal prices, wholesale power companies were able to distort California's energy markets and prevent meaningful review of electricity rates by the public, by energy buyers and by FERC,

During the Clinton years they didn't do this. It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies.

It's disappointing when you see power exercised to benefit the auto industry rather than consumers or environmental challenges.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

wonderful stories of heroic acts.

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