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...then there's the company Green Mountain keeps. Some of Green Mountain's best investors are George W. Bush's friends. Literally - Sam Wyly, a longtime Bush confidant, is the company's largest investor. And behind Wyly are energy giants BP Amoco and Nuon, who each own about a 20 percent stake...
...matter. Green Mountain is playing a market game, and on that front, Kelly says life under George W. Bush has been just fine. Because on the state level, a "level playing field" means exactly one thing: deregulation...
...Texas, however, finished a smooth transition to deregulation under Bush the governor and remains a self-sustaining energy powerhouse, running a consistent power surplus in these times of supposed scarcity. And look what sprouted up in the land of oil fields: On April 3, Green Mountain began offering customers "100 percent clean wind power" from a windmill farm in the Texas hills...
...Green Mountain does the symbolic things it thinks will build up its brand. In February, Green Mountain scored its biggest success in deregulated Ohio - coal country - where it was selected to serve 400,000 of the state's electricity customers with the cleanest energy it can afford to sell profitably...
...Overwhelmingly, that's natural gas - not exactly the stuff of the sandalistas. So Green Mountain is building Ohio's first wind farm as a flagship. Says Kelly: "Even though that might be only two or three percent of our mix, it's important that we build the first wind plant in Ohio...