(07-27-2018, 04:48 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(07-27-2018, 01:37 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: It might also mean cheaper prices or innovation driving a more effective, less intrusive delivery mechanism. But we'll never know since government took over and corrupted the market.

Precisely.  JEA is the very definition of government corruption and bloat.  FPL runs circles around them.  I'd much rather have FPL than JEA.

Look no further than the energy inequality of Texas and California.
Texas is one of the highest producers and exporters of energy.  They get it, and they do it extremely well.
On the other side of the coin is California - who has just as many resources but squander that opportunity.  They are run by nutjobs and have to import power instead of harnessing it themselves.

Lesson in there.

Right, FPL is not government owned, but they are very heavily regulated.  Counties that use FPL still have an electric monopoly.  Where I am we have Duke, also privately owned.  I feel like the OUC and FPL areas got restored faster than us after Matthew and Irma, and I remember reading that FPL had better customer satisfaction than Duke. in theory the government regulations should smooth this out and get the different private operators giving customers similar experiences, but there's really no way to know.

the only thing that we can know for sure is that if the government regulation goes away, competition will not come for most people. Only densely populated areas will get more than one electric grid provider. from there we can know for sure that lighter or absent government regulation in this area would give higher prices and inferior service. if my house is the only one using a certain pole Transformer and it blows up there may be no incentive for them to fix it quickly, if the repair would cost more than I would spend on electricity in a hundred years.

Why is it bad if California imports electricity from other states? One of the nice things about this union of states we have is zero barriers to trade and transit between states.  Why not take advantage of that?

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