Interesting to hear more about the Golden State mess. I've thought for a long time that they are mostly really screwed up. Who else would demand 'pollution free' electric cars without even thinking about where the electric power to recharge all those batteries is coming from? Hence, higher demand on electric power, generated in part, I would suppose, by burning fossil fuel. We've gone the deregulation route here in Maine, but it has not changed much yet. There is no competition for supplying power, for one thing. it still comes from the same sources as before. The former power companies are now just moving all that power from the generators to the people. When our power goes out up here, we just crank up the generator and sit back and relax, watching the snow come down.