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Cheaper utilities was never the goal
Why are utilities privatized?
Our energy provider increased our rates, then reported record breaking profits the next year. :(
(US)
They should be nonprofits, independent, but strictly non profit
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Why not nuclear?
You can double check it but I think solar is cheaper now. I was shocked as well, I thought nuclear was the cheapest still.
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Because of decades of fear-mongering and under-investment (that gets redirected to fossil).
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I feel like the reason is obvious. Maybe it is just me.
Clearly this sub haven't seen this video from Technology Connections. It breaks it all down for you step by step why the statement is true.
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Lots of US states have legislation that lets you choose your energy provider. People buy from the 100% green energy providers if they wish to pay more, not if they wish to save money.
Source: Several of my friends live in these states; they pay more to buy from 100% green energy providers.
Yeah because companies in the US exploit everything and everyone until they get stopped (which they don't)
And probably because fossil energy gets subsidised heavily to compete with renewable energy. So on your electricity bill the fossil is cheaper but your taxes are sent there ten times.
Well currently the US is fucked anyway
In the US, a big part of it is that natural gas is a waste product of oil fracking. If you want the oil, you will get a giant gob of natural gas to go with it. The stuff is really, really fucking cheap because of this.
I think the best move would be to remove soft costs and artificial barriers to supply across the board, whether it’s green energy or fossil fuels. The government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and losers, since that’s the source of much of the lobbying and corruption we see. Ideally, we’d rely on a system of profit and loss to signal the best use of resources, rather than having outside interference distort those signals and create bubbles.
Government should be for the people not for the corporations
In many cities in America, private companies threaten cities demanding that they get paid to expand, or else they'll leave.
Comcast demanded they get city investments to expand wifi to more of the city and even promised free wifi to public places. And after millions of city dollars given, they said, "nevermind".
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Nah. They would be 50-60% cheaper if;
- They required the choice between two different administrators.
- They were ran as non profit (private equity is ruining utilities currently).
Us is pathetic. Nothing is planned.
No direction. Every 4 years fuckers change shit.
Centrally planned china can run circles around
Yeah, China is great!
All dictatorships are more efficient than democracies, so just give it a little time. Our dictator will catch up. It's our first try at fascism. Cut us some slack.
I've heard a lot of definitions of fascism, but the one that makes the most sense, that explains the most is this:
Fascism is what they call it when an empire takes the murderous and dehumanizing policies it uses on it's periphery - it colonies invasions territories "frontiers" - and begins using them on the citizens of the "homeland" or imperial core.
Germany had concentration camps in its African colonies well before they started ghettoizing Jewish people. The United States has had "fascist" policies all my life and all your life. Those dehumanizing and murderous actions have just been turned outward. But your means always become your ends.
If you want to know the future of this country, look at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Look at the black-sites and the special rendition treaties. The water tables poisoned by depleted uranium ammunition. The families lost to drone strikes as so-called "collateral". We have always been fascist. Those of us who just happen to live here, no different from the German citizens who simply didn't know and did not ask too many questions.
Energy is cheaper where the government has a public alternative. That goes for all utilities and services.
Anything cheaper for the consumer means less profit, which means less money for bribes, which means conservative governments are against it
Technology Connections has a video on it...
But i doubt bills would go down; it's just that line would go up.
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