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Originally Posted by Superman
Yeah.....there was a brief power deregulation event in California a few years ago that didn't leave many happy campers.
For the most part, we (the people) built the transmission and distribution grids and nearly all the generation facilities (certainly all the dams), and now we want to have private companies using these systems (which we paid for) to sell us our electricity at a profit? I guess there's one born every minute.
And again, the really cool "deregulation" thing in out future is the water supply. "They" REALLY REALLY want to get their hands on that.
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You really don't know anything about the power gen business. Most of the transmission systems were privately built. Most power generation in this country has been privately owned but heavily regulated. That continues to this day. "The People" if you are meaning "The Government" did not build it. Yes, many dams in the late 1920's and 1930's were government built.