blackouts!

[Brad Mayer]

"Botched"? It's working exactly as planned.  Oopps, there goes the pow.... 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: blackouts!


> Wednesday, January 17, 2001 -- 4:06 PM EST
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> 
> California Orders Blackouts as Power Crisis Escalates
> 
> Pushed over the brink by its botched experiment with
> deregulation, California began imposing rolling blackouts
> today for the first time, ordering utilities to turn off the
> power to hundreds of thousands of people.
> 
> Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/?0117na
>