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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 09:06 PM
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Enron Traders Caught On Tape
This may be old news here...but this just blows me away...to me it's even more evidence that Enron was involved with bringing down Davis and installing Ahhhhhnold...


(CBS) When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports.

"Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," a trader sang about the massive fire.

Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard – on audiotapes obtained by CBS News – gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.

"He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."

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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 09:23 PM
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 09:37 PM
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2. bunch of
crooks man...nothing more...

and there's ol BushCo doing exactly what they wanted him to do..."that's why I oppose price caps"...

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