The story of earthquake insurance in California is one of cut and run.
Massachusetts consumers are being squeezed out of the concert so Schwarzenegger can raise millions of dollars to push his big-industry donors' agenda in California.
What's amazing is that you've got a situation where Schwarzenegger has become worse than Gray Davis. It's almost like a Schwarzenegger movie where the hero kills the villain -- and takes over his personality.
This really exposes the industry. They say it's all about cost-based pricing. But this shows it is all about marketing. If it were truly about risk, you wouldn't expect to see such a wide range of approaches.
It's very clear to us that gas prices need to be regulated. We really need to step back and recognize that like electricity, gasoline is too vital to the economy to be left in the hands of these corporations that have been gouging us.
We're being asked to bail out the utility companies for billions of dollars, but they're not worth billions of dollars.