IMO, far too little has been discussed about the surcharge many power companies tacked on to CA's power purchases because the state was so far in arrears on paying its bills. I believe it was BC Hydro which at one point refused to deliver power unless it received some of what it was due.
Several companies forgave the surcharge when Davis went squealing last year to FERC.
I think you're on to something with the "blame Enron" campaign strategy. I think it's a strategy that very possibly the Democrats will nationalize. I just wonder if it will work. I really think people are burned out hearing the whining about Enron. You can only kick a dead horse so many times...
Perhaps I've become too cynical, but I don't think things have changed much since Adolph Hitler wrote:
...the great mass of the people...consequently represent the simplest-minded part of the nation. It cannot be listed in terms of professions, but at most in general degrees of intelligence. To it belong all those who have neither been born nor trained to think independently, and who partly from incapacity and partly from incompetence believe everything that is set before them in black and white. To them also belongs the type of lazybones who could perfectly well think, but from sheer mental laziness seizes gratefully on everything that someone else has thought, with the modest assumption that the someone else has exerted himself considerably. Now, with all these types, who constitute the great masses, the influence of the press will be enormous, They are not able or willing themselves to examine what is set before them, and as a result their whole attitude toward all the problems of the day can be reduced almost exclusively to the outside influence of others...--Mein Kampf