High court puts energy initiative back on ballot (California)

[Judi Lynn]

SAN FRANCISCO
High court puts energy initiative back on ballot
Move overturns state appellate ruling on Prop. 80
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, July 28, 2005

The California Supreme Court restored a consumer-sponsored energy initiative to the Nov. 8 state ballot Wednesday, saying the public should vote on the measure before a legal challenge by the energy industry is considered.

Acting with unusual speed, the court unanimously overturned a ruling issued last Friday by the state Court of Appeal in Sacramento that struck Proposition 80 from the ballot.

The order means the voters will consider, for the second time in seven years, a rollback of the state's 1996 electricity deregulation law. That law, which removed most of the Public Utilities Commission's control of electric supplies and rates, has been attacked by both sides of the energy debate -- for going too far or not far enough -- and is widely blamed for the blackouts and price spikes that Californians endured in 2000-01.
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"California's voters have demonstrated they want this opportunity to vote on the folly of any future electric deregulation, and the Supreme Court has now ensured they will have that opportunity," said Bob Finkelstein, the group's executive director.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/28/BAG4DDUIMV10.DTL

[ecoalex]

1. Outright fraud was the reason for the price hikes DUH

Whoever wrote this blames regulations, it was Perot, and Bush , who set up the fraud schemes, and kept them going after many calls for price ceilings, but shrub said no repeatedly.Swartzenegger was in on the last meeting in May with all the players, including Ken Who ? ( shrub, what an ass ) Lay.

Shrub should of been Impeached for this alone.

[DBoon]

2. Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room

The campaign for this initiative should get ahold of this movie and show free screenings