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As the price of power tripled in California last summer, Loretta Lynch, the president of California's Public Utilities Commission, was forced to pass on high rates to consumers. In this excerpt from "Blackout," Enron CEO Jeff Skilling responds to Lynch's claims that energy companies were to blame because they manipulated the fragile energy market. Also, advocates for and against public power explain the fundamentals of their positions.