[cdn-nucl-l] Sellers manipulated the market to increase prices

["Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@home.com>]

FYI
J
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list ans-pie <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Energy Looking Glass 2000nov22 Sellers manipulated the market
toincrease prices


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> > SAN FRANCISCO  California regulators found evidence that power sellers
in
> > the state manipulated the market to boost wholesale electricity prices.
> >
> > Power sellers operated "in ways that are designed to increase market
> > prices,", PUC President Loretta  Lunch said in a statement.
>
> --If people want deregulation, they should expect such things.
> That is the way free markets operate. You can't expect to get the benefits
> of free market and the benefits of regulation both.
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>