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Originally posted by Superman
Nice try, Red-Beard, but "deregulation" is what everyone else called it. Another accurate term might be "free market." Still another term might be "charge whatever you can get the customer to pay." Or perhaps "sell the the highest bidder" or "pretend there is a shortage, create rolling blackouts to illustrate the lie, and gouge everyone."
How would you call a law which forces a utility to not sign long term contracts on the purchase of energy, but fixes the price that the energy can be sold? Is this de-regulation or regulation?

I Personally call that REGULATION. And a stupid one at that. In NY, we had deregulation. You are charged a fixed price for transportation and then floating charge for energy.
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