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Old 09-08-2022, 02:15 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
Publicly-owned services can out-perform everything but agriculture and retail merchandising.
Making America Great involves dumping deregulation, and corporate 'personhood.'
If by outperform, you mean deliver the least value for the dollar than any other organizational institution.

I'm open to the idea of re-regulation, but the fact is that electricity nationwide has gotten cheaper over time. It was $0.18 / kWh in the 70s and steadily declined in cost to about $0.14 / kWh. Something appears to be working well there.

There do need to be tweaks made to the bidding process, especially in light of the fact that solar and wind generation is always incorporated into the supply and compensated at a price way higher than their bid, shifting cost onto the other generation sources.
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