Ohio Consumer Watch Dog Group Could be Barred by Law From Criticizing Deregulation

[upstatecajun]

The provision, added in an amendment this week, says:

“The counsel shall not advocate or otherwise promote any position contrary to the development of competitive markets in this state, including any position contrary to natural gas retail auctions, merchant function exit or the policies of this state relating to competitive natural gas markets.”

In other words, the agency would be unable to comment if one of the state’s regulated natural-gas companies decided that it wanted to stop selling gas. If a utility stopped selling gas, its sole function would be gas delivery, and its customers would have no choice but to buy from unregulated gas marketers such as Direct Energy, Just Energy or IGS Energy.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/05/07/plan-stifles-consumers-advocate.html?sid=101

[Enthusiast]

1. That sounds like freedom and liberty.

:sarcasm:

[jpak]

2. GOP morans that read the Constitution on the House floor wipe their butts with it

facists

yup