{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Jim Bushnell - Electricity and the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger","description":"You can take the politics out of power but... I\u2019m talking to&amp;nbsp;Jim Bushnell, an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis \u2013 who was in New Zealand in August as the S.T. Lee fellow at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation. Last week, Jim talked about the counterintuitive blackouts&amp;nbsp;in the 2001 Californian Power Crisis they saw \u2013 even when there was surplus generation capacity available. This week he explains what it did for some high-profile political careers, including that of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In August, Bushnell gave a lecture in Wellington asking If Electricity Liberalisation is So Great, why does everybody hate it? ","author_name":"Hancock's blog","author_url":"https:\/\/energynews.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36964565\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/189532140"}