Second day of rolling blackouts starts

Fri Jan 19 00:48:52 UTC 2001

Actually, my understanding was that it was a forced sell-off. PG&E had no
choice. They weren't allowed to keep the generators.

> From: mdevney at teamsphere.com [mailto:mdevney at teamsphere.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:11 PM
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> 
> > What's wrong with this picture? I see the generators, 
> holding a shotgun at
> > PG&E's neck, and telling the state that they'll pull the 
> triggers if the
> > state doesn't come up with the dough. They're not even 
> wearing a mask! Yet,
> > no one is seeing anything wrong with this and they're 
> acting like it's
> > PG&E's fault.
> > 
> Also note that:
> 
> Half of these generators used to be owned and operated by 
> PG&E; they were
> spun off quickly after deregulation in an effort to boost 
> profits.  Had I
> been out of diapers at the time, I would have seen this day 
> coming back
> then.  
> 
> Root cause, then: PG&E can't get us electricity because they decided
> profit was more important than assured service.