Utility commission forgets the public
We need a better name for the Public Utility Commission.
Some suggestions: “The Big Generator Support Commission” or “The Utilities’ Legion of Lapdogs” or, perhaps, with apologies to the Muppets, “Electric Mayhem.”
Whatever name is given to this motley band, the word “public” should be removed from its title because it’s become increasingly ironic if not insulting. The PUC is doing far more to support the industry it purports to regulate than to champion the interests of the public.
Last month, it voted to raise the wholesale price caps for electricity by 50 percent and advanced a plan to double them again next year. It did this without assessing the public impact, ignoring requests from lawmakers, consumer groups and a coalition of commercial electricity users.
This month, it approved a plan by NRG, one of the state’s biggest generators, that outlines formulas for the prices at which NRG sells electricity in the wholesale market.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/07/23/steffy-utility-commission-forgets-the-public/
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...and you end up in a Banana Republic...
Who knew? 
That moniker suits them quite nicely.
What is really depressing is that not one single board or commission in the state of Texas actually works for the public. All of them are a big ruse. All to pretend to work for the public at large but they're all captured agencies that actually do the bidding of big business. 
