Quotes – Enron: illustrative sentences
| FERC |
| the ferc nor the partnerships will accept these charges unless we have the data to send the costs to them we do not have the option of reducing our certificated capacity without filing an abandonment at the ferc in which we would have to demonstrate that the abandonment would not impair our abilities to meet our firm obligations we have examined joskow and ferc’s analysis on the price gouging issue and we believe there are several major flaws in their methodologies by copy of this email i will ask our outside counsel bob madden to comment on how he thinks the ferc ruling can and will be used against us on point, i think that at the end of the day ferc will not deal with the negative ctc directly If the intent of the soft cap is to move toward cost justification for bids above $150/MWh, then FERC is headed into an administrative morass |
| De-regulation |
| deregulation worked, the problems in California can be directly traced to continued regulatory interference in the market however the goal is to produce a high level analysis, i. e. deregulation is good and can work, command and control regulation is bad and we know that it does not work we are talking to xxxx about writing a ‘what if’ no deregulation piece for us and hopefully others |
| Democrats and republicans |
| republicans meanwhile sense that the crisis gives them an avenue of escape from the dungeon of irrelevancy to which they had been exiled by heavy losses in the last three elections you and your right-wing friends know the democrats are weak kneed and spineless they view it as unfair and punitive which it is and are frustrated that the democrats would include it simply to make the deal harvey proof |
| the ferc nor the partnerships will accept these charges unless we have the data to send the costs to them |
| deregulation worked, the problems in California can be directly traced to continued regulatory interference in the market |
| republicans meanwhile sense that the crisis gives them an avenue of escape from the dungeon of irrelevancy to which they had been exiled by heavy losses in the last three elections |
Note(s): Table shows illustrative sentences that provide a descriptive overview of the different types of senior executive utterances that underpin the results reported in Table 2. These quotes illustrate how a normative worldview and ethical stance are communicated within the senior executive emails. In line with prevailing best practices, sentences in the email database are made lowercase as part of the text processing required for the analyses (see Li and Haque, 2019; Neu and Saxton, 2023)
Source(s): Table created by authors
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