I wonder who could built and operate these plants...

supertrope 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The electric company that sends you a bill handles distribution (power lines within your city) not generation (power plants). Sometimes they are vertically integrated owning both generation and distribution. In de-regulated supplier choice states you can switch your generation provider. You cannot switch your distribution provider as each address only has one power line.

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gosub100 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Definitely not the government, given how wasteful and inefficient they are.

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42lux 4 days ago | parent [-]

I thought about the providers that are closing down power plants right now. But just out of interest who exactly is the "government" in arguments like this? Because no matter which party is controlling the government the sentiment never seems to change... always seemed like an of remark with no meaning besides yelling at clouds.

	▲	ThrowMeAway1618 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		>Because no matter which party is controlling the government the sentiment never seems to change... always seemed like an of remark with no meaning besides yelling at clouds. There are certain folks who, regardless of the issue, never fail to roll up their metaphorical newspaper, brandish it and hiss, "Gub'mint bad! Bad gub'mint!". It's almost pavlovian. While some of those folks are likely sociopathic ancaps[0], the vast majority are just willfully ignorant people whose marionette strings are being pulled by the cynical scumbags intent on enriching themselves and the rest of the world be damned! And more's the pity. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism