Amusingly enough, RTS... Los Angeles is the ONLY city that I know of in California that is not (and will not) be facing the 'rolling blackouts'. Seems that when the rest of the state caught de-regulation fever, LA said "screw this, we're going to run and regulate our own public utility, rather than let the private sector take it".

Oddly enough, at the time, PG & E (now being forced into bankruptcy hearings) loudly proclaimed that LA was going to be in the dark and charging higher rates than anyone else in the country. Even stranger, as of now, one of the reasons that California is still lit is due to LA selling off the huge backlog of reserves that they keep in their public utility that wouldn't work.

And to think... it's only taken blackouts across northern California and threatened blackouts to the remainder of southern CA to get the pundits thinking that maybe deregulation of a backbone service wasn't such a good idea...

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