41.   European Ferries and Stena Line AB to unite their English Channel fares and schedules, though they said they may seek price caps or other concessions later.

42.   Even generating companies sought to prod the president on conservation, saying that it was a better approach than all the talk of price caps.

43.   Feinstein introduced a bill Monday to give Abraham authority to impose temporary wholesale price caps on the Western market.

44.   FERC eventually voted to impose price caps on electricity sold in California.

45.   First, after begging President Bill Clinton and later Bush to put price caps on the California market, Davis finally got his wish in late June.

46.   FERC officials said the surcharges were designed mainly to deprive generators of their chief arguments why a price cap might not cover their costs.

47.   Fred John, senior vice president for Sempra Energy, the parent company of San Diego Gas and Electric, said his company had long opposed price caps.

48.   Growers got additional relief this month when Governor Gray Davis extended a residential price cap on electric bills in San Diego County to include agriculturalists and water districts.

49.   He added that even temporary price caps would be detrimental to power markets.

50.   He has asked Davis to testify for the first time to Congress on price caps next week.