{"id":783,"date":"2005-08-27T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/fool-me-twice-shame-on-me\/"},"modified":"2005-08-27T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T23:08:31","slug":"fool-me-twice-shame-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/fool-me-twice-shame-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool me twice, Shame on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA \/ Power line fails, 700,000 homes blacked out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/08\/26\/BLACKOUT.TMP\">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA \/ Power line fails, 700,000 homes blacked out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one of the most severe electricity problems since the energy crisis, blackouts hit Southern California on Thursday after a major transmission line was knocked out, cutting power to roughly 700,000 homes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just because the last crisis was a phony, created by a friend of Duhbya&#8217;s and leading directly to the rise of Republican Governor Schwartzeneggar, that&#8217;s no reason to be cynical about this crisis &#8212; <i>this<\/i> crisis is real, don&#8217;t you know. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a> News &gt; Business &#8212; FERC wants closure to energy crisis&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20050813-9999-1b13refunds.html&#8221;&gt;SignOnSanDiego.com &gt; News &gt; Business &#8212; FERC wants closure to energy crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>California has sought $9 billion in refunds for electricity and natural gas that it says was over-priced due to market manipulation by some of the nation&#8217;s biggest energy firms.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reliant settles issues involving California energy crisis - 2005-08-15\" href=\"http:\/\/houston.bizjournals.com\/houston\/stories\/2005\/08\/15\/daily1.html\">Reliant settles issues involving California energy crisis &#8211; 2005-08-15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Houston-based electricity provider Reliant Energy Inc. announced Monday morning that it has reached a $445 million settlement over litigation and regulatory investigations stemming from the sale of electricity during California&#8217;s energy crisis in 2000 and 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA \/ Power line fails, 700,000 homes blacked out In one of the most severe electricity problems since the energy crisis, blackouts hit Southern California on Thursday after a major transmission line was knocked out, cutting power to roughly 700,000 homes. Just because the last crisis was a phony, created by a friend of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/fool-me-twice-shame-on-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fool me twice, Shame on me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}