Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers ...

Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers would have been right at to one's home in modern Las Cruces, NM spectacle of a 20th-century western showdown from one side of to the other electric power. The legendary gunslingers likely would have galloped public of Tombstone, Ariz., across the state line and into the fight, which pits the residents and rule of Las Cruces against El Paso Electric (EPE)

The city is battling to take athwart EPE's local distribution system and establish a strange municipal utility, primarily to relieve citizens and businesses of the highest electric rates in the region.

"We've been able to demonstrate the fact that we can contract rates by at least 20 percent across the next 10 years if we municipalize," says assistant city manager Jerry Trojan.

However, Las Cruce a wilderness town of around 66,000 tribe represents an 8 percent chunk of EPE's business, and losing the city would be a