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Texas fights Davis' claim of banditry
By James Rosen
Bee Washington Bureau
(Published Sept. 2, 2001)
HOUSTON  --  All summer long, the corporate barons of Energy Alley have listened to Californians castigate them as greedy gougers with friends in high places, and they've about heard an earful.
Instead of sailing the seas in brigantines, the Texas power merchants targeted as "profiteers and pirates" by Gov. Gray Davis ply their trade from atop glass masts along Louisiana Street in downtown Houston.
"We are proud of what we've done in California to help keep the lights on," Joe Bob Perkins, president of wholesale business for Reliant Energy, said in his 47th-floor office. "We've run our plants at record levels. We invested four times more in 2000 than we did in 1998. Reliant certainly didn't withhold power. We did everything we could to make it available. We made more money because we sold more electricity."

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