> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 3:20 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: RE: Gray Davis Recall Election Set for Sep-Oct > > > At 07:51 AM 7/25/03 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Behalf Of pencimen > > > >... > > > > > Enron _and_ the Bush administration. > > > > > > Or is that what you meant? > > > >Sort of. Except that there's some superset that they're both > part of, which > >I dare not name. ;-) > > > > "Politicians"? > > "Human beings"?
Right on both counts! I should have dared. A couple of comments on other parts of this thread. It's hard to call what the energy companies were doing "blackmail." It seems to have been a largely concocted "crisis," but some parts of it were not deliberate, but rather were due to Enron's vast stupidity. A friend of mine is in the energy consulting business; he told me stories that were like others that I've seen reported, in which Enron traders didn't realize that they were trading the same chunks of energy repeatedly, artificially driving up the prices. This only became clear after the trades were analyzed -- their internal tracking systems were so awful that they failed to track the fact that two Enron traders and a third party could be bidding back and forth on the same power block. Shameful, certainly, but deliberate, no. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
