51.   If it continues, utilities along the river will have to buy power and may be punished by the same market forces that gave them a windfall.

52.   If I want to buy wind power from a company in Maine, will that company deliver that power to my home?

53.   If some customers are allowed to desert the utilities and buy power from competitors, fewer ratepayers would be left to pay off the bonds.

54.   If that happened, the utility would have to spend millions buying power on the spot market to make sure its customers had enough electricity.

55.   In an open marketplace, the big customers could buy power from the cheapest supplier, technically anywhere in the nation.

56.   In many instances, he said, the reimposed tax has wiped out whatever savings consumers enjoyed from buying cheaper power.

57.   In the brave new world of deregulation, if Peco still had to charge higher rates to cover its mortgage, no one would buy its power.

58.   In the high-cost Northeast, utilities can buy cheap power elsewhere and, presumably, pass the savings along to consumers.

59.   In this reconsideration of Holyfield, we are going to have to stop buying power by the pound.

60.   In the year-old market, power is bought and sold like precious metals or lumber.