> One of the surprising features of the crypto boom is the discovery of places where the price of energy is directly subsidized, or otherwise broken

are you really arguing that letting the market work on energy instead of having somewhat democratic state run utilities works well? i think the evidence speaks for itself. what do you see?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/10/texa-a10.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/01/texa-j01.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/08/texa-m08.html