Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: MtnClimber

George Michael agrees…oh wait.

Anyhow, it’s absolutely impossible for base and peak demands to be drawn from “green” sources.

My own personal inside take is that utility companies shouldn’t be allowed to be public and traded. “This fiscal quarter” and “our shareholders” causes myopia and damages future conditions.


7 posted on 02/10/2023 5:53:28 AM PST by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: EEGator

So would the state motor vehicle department run the utilities, or maybe the state highway department? If its not private, it’s government. Thats why the utility companies were regulated. They no longer are, in most states, even if there are government functionaries with the name.


12 posted on 02/10/2023 6:45:40 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: EEGator

Careful, you’ll be accused of being a socialist for thinking that let alone pitting it in writing. Not that I necessarily disagree with you.

Like roads and waterways, some things are too vital to our function to be left int he hands of profit motives. In just one example of this, look at Austin and the no good alternative route to private toll roads. I guess they still have those.

Of course, the profit motive does get things done fast. Amazing to see how fast BW8 NWest in Houston got built compared to what TxDOT did on their own in other sections. That whole NW segment got built faster than any other one part.


14 posted on 02/10/2023 6:52:59 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson