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...captain Deepak Abraham led the men's team (4-0) at the No. 1 spot and handed Williams' Win Tangjaitrong a 3-0 loss...
There wasn't a lot of tension at Spencer Abraham's confirmation hearing last week. George W. Bush's pick to head the Energy Department is a shoo-in. But one uncomfortable moment came when Abraham refused to say what the new Administration would do about California's electricity crisis. That prompted Frank Murkowski, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to growl, "You better have some answers...
...With an eager new energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, and a nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, former Mississippi state utility regulator Curt Hebert, on their way in, the Bushies remain hopeful that they can find "long-term" solutions to the U.S.' darkening energy picture, as Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer put it. But even the longest journey must begin with a single step, and with the economy teetering and the political climate in Washington tense, the inevitable first one - making California make deregulation work without federal help - is most definitely a lulu...
...Abraham extended just-departed Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's standing order to force western energy suppliers - and the neighboring states they supply - to continue selling their surplus electricity to California and its drowning-in-debt utilities. This despite the wide-open question of whether the utilities (or anyone else) will ever pay them for the juice...
...years' time, the power plants that Davis approved for construction will have gone online, and the state's power crunch may well be eased. And by then, the Bush administration may have come up with some fresh answers of its own (Abraham's current plan for keeping oil prices manageable? Diplomatic talks with OPEC, which you'll recall was Richardson's Plan...