Bob Filner: “And, the blackouts occurred at a time when our capacity for production theoretically is 45,000 megawatts, the demand in…”

“And, the blackouts occurred at a time when our capacity for production theoretically is 45,000 megawatts, the demand in the wintertime when air-conditioning is not on is about 30,000, so we have a 30,000 megawatt demand, we have a 45,000 capacity. Economics 101 says there ought to be sufficient supply at a reasonable price. We had blackouts, and we had blackouts because of the situation that the gentleman described earlier. I wonder if the gentleman might share with us also the experience of those with public power; that is, there are 3,000 communities around this country that have public power. The City of Los Angeles, which the gentleman knows very well, produces its own power and distributes it. The City of Sacramento I think has its own power supply. Those cities and those municipalities, those areas that have public power are not under the control, for the most part, of this energy cartel. Does it work?”