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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Bruce Nichols
May 26--HOUSTON--There's no outbreak of anti-California bumper stickers, and most water-cooler talk is muted. But the people of the oil patch hear the latest Texas-bashing from afar, and they don't like it.
"It's unfair," said Leroy Stavinoha, 52, who works at a Houston power plant for Reliant Energy, one of the companies that generates electricity in California and has been a target of recent criticism. "It hurts."
In Houston, which bills itself as the energy capital, that sentiment is common at refineries, power plants, among pipeline workers and in downtown office buildings. You hear the same defensive tone after work on talk radio, at the bus stop or in bars and restaurants.
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