“Who will be the beneficiaries of this vast competition?”
Why, the Friends of Congress and the President, of course.
Certainly those will be the principal beneficiaries.
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No man. When you have this kind of vast systemic competition—it means that the cost of transportation steadily subsides. The chief beneficiaries of this competition are the people who use the systems. That’s us. We have moved inside of a monopoly for over a century and paid for it. In the not distant future the costs are going to wrung out of the whole transport system. The results will be an enormous surge of wealth for everyone.
You are under the delusion that Government will not pick the winners and losers.
This is not 1910.
Energy is the MOST political and strategic commodity in the world.
Because it is the most lucrative.
He with the best lobbyists and lobbying program will win this, hands down.