Here in Michigan we have two major electric companies in what they call a “competitive partnership” and they have a state mandated cap on outside competition set at 10% of the market share.
My state rep is pushing to raise the cap to 25% and you would think he’s personally trying to kill everyone who works for those two companies. Millions are being spent on ads to oppose this evil attempt at “deregulation”.
I hope he wins. I often admire Michigan for the right moves it is making now. I’m trapped in Illinois. Nobody fights for the little guy there.
It’s one of the reasons that liberalism is such a lie. In the free market system the consumer is king. In socialism the consumer is the victim.
Liberals have so poisoned the word deregulation by 1. doing it wrong and 2. propagandizing their own failures, that the average person hates deregulation.
Here in Illinois people blame their rising energy costs on... deregulation of the industry. Crazy.