In a related story, Enron also sucks. Still.

Voters in Yolo County are going to the polls to decide whether to switch electric utilities from privately owned gougers PG&E (the company Erin Brockovitch sued and one of the key players in the Enron-influenced gouging that led to the rolling blackouts of several summers ago) to the publicly owned utility in adjacent Sacramento County.

Key excerpt: Mr. Darbee argued that “it is inappropriate for politicians” to take away part of P.G.&E.’s business “just because they think they can do a better job.”

How dare they move into the public sector. Just because it can do a better job cheaper doesn't make it right to trample on the sacrosanct right of private enterprise.

I'm a bit rusty on my Old Testament, but I'm pretty sure when God gave Charlton Heston the Ten Commandments, No. 8 was "Thou shalt not run run for public benefit that which can yield private profit."