Xcel Energy Says It Will Close Two Coal-Fired Power Plants a Decade Early

Re:Xcel Energy Says It Will Close Two Coal-Fired Power Plant... by linuxftw on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:15PM (#19983242)

It's almost like government-enforced monopolies are bad. You want the regulators to be in charge, until they do something you don't like, funny how that works. You want democracy until democracy votes in people that don't represent you, funny how that works.

If there wasn't a ubiquitous subsidized power grid already, at-home solar installs would be cheaper. Large utilities are only competitive because they can externalize their costs via state-enforced mechanisms (absolving responsibility for pollution, stealing property aka eminent domain).

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Re:Xcel Energy Says It Will Close Two Coal-Fired Power Plant... by cobookman on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:19PM (#19983273)

For all the crap I give the Cali government. Their high cost of gas made me buy an ev as it was cheaper.

Now with the PGE bankruptcy, rates will increase and I'll likely buy solar.

Capitalism works. people optimize for what's cheapest for themselves

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Re:Xcel Energy Says It Will Close Two Coal-Fired Power Plant... by MR4D on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:02PM (#19983730)

People always optimize, whether in capitalism or communism, or anything else. It's a survival function - even ants do it [1].

And what you're calling capitalism is more "fascism-lite" due to excessive regulation. (see [2] for "...severe economic and social regimentation, ...")

[1] - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140526182749.h... [2] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

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