Message from @shinsoo
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Heh. I like that you bring in Edison. 😛
Kind of a scumbag.
Well, some things should never be left to free market
Like Firefighting
Ancient Athens and USA in 1800 tried that
Firefighter mafias were having fights in the streets
I can kind of see your point there.
anything that has high infrastructure costs imo
competition is nigh-impossible with broadband
might wanna take a look into westinghouse history
Texas has a brilliant solution to the electrical grid and private industry.
Some things need state to function properly and/or not to be abused
They broke the Electrical Supply system into three separate industries.
I do agree that the state should be as minimal as it can get though
Production, Transmission, and Delivery.
Small govt is my Jive
rye we got that over here
Production company sells the power. Transmission maintains the insfrastructure, Delivery sells the electricity to the customer.
electricity itself has never been cheaper.
Yet the final product price that you pay for, has never been more expensive.
Production creates the power rather
It's a LOT cheaper under that system than it is in the part of the state I live in
which is 100% government fault since theyre the ones that are adding +70% of the price in taxes
where we've got one company, take it or everything in your fridge rots.
welcome to my country rye
That is literally the situation
plenty of competition tho
One of the things is, you can actually CHOOSE to go with a 'green energy' company
that only buys from Wind Farms
but they all cost tons of money due to the phonebook of taxes added
Or you can chose to not care about the environment and go cheap if you like.
lol ur describing the situation here 😄
because those green energy companies pay a fuckton for those solar farms
and wind farms
And yeah, Taxes and regulations are largely responsible for the high costs of a lot of things
im not from texas
Especially pharmaceuticals and energy.
I know.
But i didnt know texas was like this as well
A large portion of it is.
Certain parts rebelled against it because they were afraid of the new-fangled 'Smart Meters'.