http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=Bush%20Budget%20BPAWASHINGTON -- Northwest lawmakers vowed Monday to block a Bush administration proposal they say could raise the region's electric power rates by as much as 20 percent.
In its budget proposal for 2006, the administration called for a plan requiring the Bonneville Power Administration to shift from providing power at rates based on cost to market-based rates.
"This is the same as a billion-dollar tax hike on Washington state, and as far as I'm concerned, it's dead on arrival," said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. "To think we would arbitrarily pay more for power generated right here in the Northwest is ludicrous."
Enron…Bushco…Enron…Enbushcoron…it's really all the same, just with a different wrapping...
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