Mayor Snorkum
Banned
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2011
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- Location
- Los Angeles
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian
building the power plant is just the start, then there is the grid. it takes a lot of money, and utilitlies should be allowed some protection. who wants to build a local grid and them make it available to competition? a certain amount of monoply is expected. Once a utility builds a system in a given area, that area should be theirs without competition, but not without regulation.
No. If someone can come along and build a cheaper grid and satisfies the needs of enough customers to make it's efforts commercially viable, there's no resason at all that the first entrant into the market should be granted protection by the government. What you're describing is how every coercive monopoly in history is established, by abuse of government power and use of political connections to bar competitition.
It's wrong, and it's why the US grid is falling apart and inadequately sized for modern demands. There's no competition driving the participants to improve services.