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Re:California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E by billions on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:00PM (#21458704)
Why not simply cancel their government-mandated monopoly, as was done with the phone line carriers, and let companies like Tesla compete on a per-city basis?
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Re:California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E by ip26 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:18PM (#21459089)
Because that's working out so well with internet providers, with somewhere around half the country having only one choice of provider?
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Re:California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E by billions on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:04PM (#21459379)
Who granted Comcast monopoly over your coaxial cable? Your local government. Luckily free market competition is finding ingenious solutions around it, such as DSL, 5G wireless, and SpaceX's satellite internet.
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