Any $$$ surplus we had a couple years ago was burned thru by Gray Davis handing it to the extorsionist Electrical power generators........
We here in Kalifornia now have a deredulated electrical market.....
Which should mean competition between electrical power suppliers for our $$$$, as in all the commerials for long distance phone carriers we are bombarded with daily on both TV & radio.....
So where I ask is all the competition ?????
There is none....the political actiom groups for the big three (PG&E, SCE & SDG&E) squashed that part of "deregulation"..... so now all we have is just as it was before, only now there are NO regulated prices controlled so as to keep electricity stable, & affordable. They can manufacture ANOTHER fake electricity crisis at will...anytime....and raise consumer $$$ to their liking.
So since the big three sold virtually all their power generating plants here in Cal to out of state based corporations (real smart, ehh?) power is sold only to the big three by these out of state owned power plants at rediculously high contract $$$ agreed to by Gray Davis (aka Marvin Milktoast)
That's how deregulation works in Kalifornia.
If you don't live in sunny Kali, don't be fooled by electrical deregulation schemes you hear from your own state reps...it's a big biz scam to rape the wallets of the consumer (you!)
If you doubt anything I've said hear check into California's electricity problem for your self, I'd love to be educated on any thing I may have mis- construed.
Thx for listening to my rant !!