El Paso Corp. Should Take Part of Blame
The Times missed one major twist in “El Paso Case Full of Twists and Turns,” Oct. 22.
At the height of the California natural-gas price crunch, El Paso Corp. blamed the entire problem on California by claiming a lack of capacity within the state to handle any more gas.
After claiming that reduced shipments were caused by safety considerations and not by any capacity problems in California, El Paso and its executives have now admitted that they lied to California in 2000.
El Paso clearly had a major role in triggering the gas and electricity price crisis in California, and the only remaining question is how much of the company will be given to California to pay for its misdeeds.
Keith Price
Cheviot Hills
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