Bastards at Enron knew they were jacking Cali energy prices

zmatrix

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Them bastids.....

CBS News

(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," the traders sang.


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."


"Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee.


"OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first.

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ElFenix

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ah well california really fvcked up its deregulation scheme. no one would give a rat's ass except enron made bad investments in brazil.
 

Ameesh

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Originally posted by: fivespeed5
I think it's been established that the Enron guys are bastards.

republicans don't think so, enron helped bush get elected.
 

slycat

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dats they behind bars...and i'm in Cali so them bitches need to pay.
 

m2kewl

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Originally posted by: slycat
dats they behind bars...and i'm in Cali so them bitches need to pay.

not all of them!! :|

kenny boy is still FREE and living large!! :| nearly all of the current bush administration had links to that scheming company!...pisses me off to no end!
 

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Originally posted by: m2kewl

not all of them!! :|

kenny boy is still FREE and living large!! :| nearly all of the current bush administration had links to that scheming company!...pisses me off to no end!

enron, like all large companies, donated heavily to everyone.

and you have to move up the ladder cutting plea bargains to get people to rat out their bosses. it takes time, but they're getting there.
 

slycat

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the employees are paid salary+maybe bonuses so they sure ain't gonna sit on lead for their bosses
who are packing in the millions.
 

Vette73

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Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
I think it's been established that the Enron guys are bastards.

republicans don't think so, enron helped bush get elected.



That and Bushs largest donor to DATE is STILL enron.

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