This is the most significant energy crisis in 30 years. Its going to be a particularly challenging season.

It is now appropriate to talk of a major energy crisis after Hurricane Katrina pushed U.S. energy markets beyond the edge. The impact of Katrina has been to produce a significant discontinuity.

Attacking energy waste is the cheapest and cleanest thing we can do to address the energy crisis. We have no ethical problem with making dirty things cleaner, but by simply investing in energy efficiently we could create 1.4 million jobs by 2025 and reduce the overall electricity load by 10 percent.

Solving the energy crisis in California does not require bailing out Edison,

This is a long-term problem, it's a long-term energy crisis, which has not been addressed by either political party.

What happened in the fall was unprecedented.