31.   Freedman said that if wholesale electricity prices stay low his group would fight for lower bills for consumers.

32.   Great Plains Power would be allowed to build plants and sell wholesale electricity, which is not regulated.

33.   He urged Bush to tell federal regulators to impose price controls on wholesale electricity.

34.   If some of that capacity suddenly went off line for whatever reason, the resulting shortage would send wholesale electricity prices sky high.

35.   In January, Boxer introduced legislation in the Senate to establish a price cap on wholesale electricity throughout the west.

36.   It is the largest non-regulated marketer of wholesale electricity in North America.

37.   Lynch said the effect of the trading was to set prices throughout the wholesale electricity market in California far above what was justified.

38.   Meanwhile, California energy czar S. David Freeman, in town to lobby on the subject, says he hopes federal regulators will impose price caps on wholesale electricity.

39.   Mineta suggested he favors more stringent emissions standards on automobiles, but is not as enamored with price caps on wholesale electricity as other California Democrats.

40.   Mired somewhere between regulated power and the free market, the state experienced extraordinary wholesale electricity prices.