• oyo@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    Privately owned publicly enforced monopolies are rife with conflicts of interest. PG&E should be taken over by the state yesterday.

    • skip0110@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      There are public utilities in the US. And yes, they offer better service and lower costs than the competing private utilities.

      I didn’t know about the benefits until I moved somewhere served by them. I think we would have more of them if people could see the benefits, but unfortunately the utilities you have access to are limited by where you live.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    We took profit for decades from letting our infrastructure decay. Now we still want that same amount of profit, so you have to pay more for us to fix all the problems that should have been fixed with that profit money in the past.

  • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    23 days ago

    “In order to continue to make the same profit (or more year over year) we charge more per unit when demand goes down… We also charge more when demand goes up… Suck it peasants”