Power: ‘Get the Facts’

Re “Power Crisis: Give Us Facts,” editorial, March 4: Certainly Californians deserve the facts--they are long overdue. The facts should include explicitly who created this debacle and what has been done to remove them from office. The concept that the state can force a company to sell power at a price significantly below cost, on a sustained basis, is beyond comprehension--it is blatant incompetence.

The generation, transmission, distribution and pricing of electrical power is a very mature, very predictable technology. That is a fact. We deserve a solid long-term plan. There is plenty of technical and financial competence in this state to rapidly produce such a plan. It is time to get rid of the amateurs in Sacramento and put the right professionals to work. Then we will get the facts.

SHERMAN N. MULLIN

Glendale