曾经是像甲烷那么迟钝的公用事业公司,Enron的致富秘诀是在以前从来不存在市场的地方创造出市场来。 15年前,美国法规对燃气和燃气管道业的过度管制使州与州之间的燃气管道业处于极其混乱的状态。某一管道可直接从美国南部得克萨斯的气田铺到美国的东北部。但是根据联邦法律,这是一个“点对点”的系统,管道公司只可以在管道沿线向指定的 Once a dull utility company like methane, Enron's recipe for getting rich was to create a market where it had never existed before. Fifteen years ago, over regulation of gas and gas pipelines by U.S. regulations left gas pipelines between states in a state of extreme turmoil. A pipeline can be directly deployed from the gas field in Texas, southern United States, to the northeastern United States. But according to federal law, this is a “point-to-point” system where pipe companies can only specify pipelines along the pipeline