El Paso Energy
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</span></div>Texas Energy Company Accused of </span><a class="tip" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/price+gouging" style="color: black;">Price Gouging</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to Make Money off California's Energy Crisis. The </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Federal+Energy+Regulatory+Commission" style="color: black;">Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> ordered further inquiry into allegations by California officials that </span><a class="tip" rel="nofollow" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/El+Paso+Natural+Gas" style="color: black;">El Paso Natural Gas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Co., a Houston based subsidiary of </span><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/El+Paso"><font color="#ff0000">El Paso</font></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Energy Co., manipulated the natural gas market by keeping supply artificially low, contributing to the high price of electricity in the state. El Paso Energy was one of the Texas firms "grandfathered" by Bush's voluntary emissions standards in Texas. Between 1993 and 1998, El Paso Energy and El Paso Natural Gas PACs gave a total of $8,000 to Bush's gubernatorial campaigns. During the 1999-2000 election cycle, El Paso Energy Corp. and El Paso Natural Gas Co. gave a total of $743,029 to Bush and the GOP -- $460,395 to GOP in soft money, $247,750 to GOP candidates from its PAC, and $34,884 to the Bush campaign from its employees and executives. (www.opensecrets.org; </span><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Los+Angeles+Times" style="color: black;">Los Angeles Times</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 3/30/01; tebb.epenergy.com; Boston Globe, 10/3/99) </span></font>