Dan Minette wrote:
Yea, I was speaking from ignorance when I thought that the Ca. energy crisis was contrived too, and you convinced me (and probably many others on this list) that there was no way that this could be the case. But I guess this time, the ignoramus made a lucky guess:
The long term control of all the spigots goes to the _owners_ of the well.
No offense, but you are speaking from ignorance.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2002/10/18/rtr757489.html
"Belden was seen as one of the principal architects of several Enron schemes which federal officials say allowed it to profit illegally from California's mismanaged electricity deregulation law.
The power plays, with names such as "Death Star" and "Fat Boy," allowed Enron to manipulate power prices even as the blackouts and chaos gripped the Western U.S. power grid.
Belden in particular was held responsible for two power trading schemes which had a devastating impact on California and allegedly helped boost Enron's West Power revenues from about $50 million in 1999 to about $800 million in 2001.
The "Ricochet" scheme allowed Enron to export electricity generated in California to other states and then turn around and sell it back to California consumers as "imported energy" -- not governed by emergency price caps -- reaping millions in profits.
Another scheme, according to federal investigators, involved scheduling phantom power shipments on overloaded lines into parts of California that most desperately needed energy in order to collect special payments."
And that is only one of several scheming energy companies that conspired to create a phony crisis and scam us out of billions.
If we attack and subsequently subjugate Iraq, do you really believe that the "pecking order" will be the same as it is in UAE?Go to the Middle East to ex-pat oil worker communities, and see what the standing of the oil companies there are. For example, in UAE, there is a clear, strong social order.1) Citizens 2) Other Arabs 3) European ex-pats 4) "Packies" (who are mostly Pakistanies, but refers to any other people from non-Arab third world countries brought in to do the work that's too menial for the citizens to do.
Doug
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