Hunter has another fine piece over at Daily Kos. He notes some similarities to the Enron-manufactured energy crisis in California back in 2001 and the current gas price crisis we’re currently facing. Back in 2001, if you’ll recall, Enron and its political friends and well-wishers blamed environmentalists and other lefties for the California energy crisis when, in fact, Enron was using market manipulation to manufacture the crisis. Enron then used the crisis it helped cause to its advantage by locking California into artificially high energy contracts.
Hunter detects similar opportunism in the form of oil interests using the current oil price crisis as an excuse to ignore environmental concerns to obtain the right to drill in hitherto unavailable regions like the Florida coast despite the fact that other areas already available for drilling remain idle.
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