Byline: MATTHEW MILLER
Dick Cheney's stunning remarks the other day to the Los Angeles Times -- to the effect that if he were on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, he'd do nothing to repair California's malfunctioning electricity market -- amounts to heavy-handed White House jawboning to ignore the law. As such, it gives us our first delicious chance to compare the lawbreaking styles of this White House and the last.
FERC has already acknowledged the obvious: Energy suppliers who have enjoyed tenfold wholesale price hikes in the last year are exercising ``market power'' in direct violation of federal law, which says that when buyers are effectively …
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