Do they really want to answer these questions?

August 18th, 2003 | impolite company

According to this article in The Toronto Star, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham

…promised an independent investigation and indicated Sunday it will focus far beyond the problems at FirstEnergy in Ohio.

Will the administration cooperate with this independent investigation any better than they’ve cooperated with the 9/11 investigation? What about when the investigation realizes that FirstEnergy, the company whose northern Ohio lines may have been the cause of the massive power failure, is chaired by Tony Alexander, one of Bush’s “Pioneers”? (Each Pioneer raised more than $100,000 for Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign.) What about when the investigators request the minutes of Dick Cheney’s still-secret Energy Task Force meetings?

Oh, and when I mentioned the other day that “I’m just waiting for the Bushies’ reality inversion field to kick in and tell us that the solution to this deregulation-driven problem is more deregulation” — well, check out this train of thought from Kate O’Beirne on Sunday’s Capital Gang

…Well, the cost of energy to consumers has been kept much lower by deregulation. That’s not been true of the infrastructure and the grid… because that remains regulated and… And it discourages the kind of the private investment it needs… So further deregulation happens to be the answer… [edited from the transcript]

Didn’t take as long as I thought… Check out Mahablog for even more information on the Bushies connection to the Blackout of 2003.