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

sounds like a good way to pay 3 times for a single service

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'.

They'd rather pay a guy a $50 connection fee.

Tbh i would too

I got "smart meters" on my heaters

I live smaller then before

better isolated then before