Utilities "highly" invested in 'Blackout committee

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I mentioned this in the Gray Davis thread. Pg & E set the mold when they had to fight off the right of independent utility upstarts to compete with them and threaten their monopoly. Shortly after they attempted to regain a stronghold by building additional power plants, and rebuild existing ones with State funding. It wasn't untill they threatened, and eventually provided the blackouts that PG & E got what it wanted. With the added funding, and no competition in sight, the new investigations claim all the equipment worked fine, and that operator error was the culprit. You'll see the same blackmail pattern happen on the East Coast now, with Utility companies actually benefitting from the blackout investigations.