41.   Federal law once required utilities to buy the power produced by independents like Destec.

42.   For starters, it forced utilities to buy power at market rates while capping what they could charge their retail customers.

43.   Georgia Power had contracted to buy power from the plant.

44.   Gov. Gray Davis said Monday a new package of contracts to buy power will only provide about two-thirds of the amount needed during peak summer days.

45.   Gov. Gray Davis has decided that the state will buy the power from suppliers and then sell it to the distributors.

46.   GPU expects to buy power at a lower price from AES than it would from other suppliers, Plummer said.

47.   He said PacifiCorp has had to buy additional power from other suppliers because of rapid growth in the Utah economy over the past year.

48.   His promise is that he will deliver consumer buying power in exchange for a recognition that he is the boss in a less-than-democratic state.

49.   However, few investors stop to think about how inflation eats away at buying power over the years.

50.   His warm and fuzzy nickname only calls attention to the veneer of fakery in his world, a world defined by its unrelenting sense of how money buys power.