[Vince Ferrer]

Someday, a blue city or state will have a blackout during a polar vortex, when the sun doesn't shine, and when they turn off the windmills. They won't have enough coal or gas plants to cover the grid, so they will just go down for a week or so. And in doing so, hundreds of people could die due to the weather.

[VTenigma]

City should study ComEd takeover, aldermen say

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That should work out well.

[BipolarBob]

Nicolás Maduro Morosis their chief consultant for this job.

[rigelkentaurus]

What could possibly go wrong with a high integrity, well-run, efficient city government like Chicago running something as simple as the electric and natural gas provider for the city?

[Tacrolimus1mg]

We had a 10-minute storm here last night. The power was out for two hours for 850+ homes. While ComEd’s services around here are known for being kinda shoddy, it will be nothing but brownouts then blackouts if Chicago takes it over.

[eyeamok]

Just wait til the power goes out during the summer due to mismanagement, let the games begin, maybe they could hit 100 shootings on a regular basis

[wally_bert]

Hundreds of guaranteed democrat voters from weather death so it would be considered a great bounty for the ghoul party.

[103198]

Would they get to run Commonwealth Edison's 11 nukes too? If so, that will be fun to watch from a good distance.

[fruser1]

Regulating commerce...

[bigbob]

Indeed, the city of Chitcago should ask ComEd to take over running the city. At least ComEd is successful at it’s primary job of keeping the lights on, whereas Chicago is a total failure at it’s primary job of keeping it’s citizens safe.

[bankwalker]

ComEd used to be run by Bill Ayres father ...

[2banana]

I predict massive blackouts in Chicago’s future.

[usconservative]

This is so laughable! Chicago is the most corrupt city in the country, this should work out really well! (/heavy_sarcasm)

[hadaclueonce]

Power outage.
That will clean it out.

[SkyDancer]

Oh yeah, a utility run by politicians. That’d sure work better.

[ConservativeMind]

Presumably, a “progressive rate structure” would mean that middle-class and wealthy Chicagoans would pay more for electricity than working-class households.

It never ends, and with Chicago and Illinois, it won’t.

All sane people need to flee.

[PAR35]

Raise my rates high enough to provide free electricity to the poor, and I’m calling the solar cell scammers and putting in a generator and giving the commies a middle finger salute.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Six months after Mayor Groot and her Progtard Dildocrat aldermen take over Con Ed, a night time satellite shot of Chiraq will look like North Korea, a big black hole, surrounded by the lights of the civilized world.

Well, except for the muzzle flashes as 400 shootings per month becomes the lower limit for the Windy Well Ventilated City.

Full Disclosure: I am no fan of Con Ed, but they are far more competent at running a major electrical utility than the Progtard Dildocrat party is at running any American city.