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Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by rglullis on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:51PM (#31064820)
Ok, but these subsidies are not based on a specific group. Some might think to be bad to subsidize Tesla, but would there be such a thing as subsidies for weed farmers?

The reason I am asking: unless there are such subsidies, it would mean that people pay proportional to their usage, so OP's joke about "electricity neutrality" would not only be wrong, it would be against net neutrality as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by JaimeThompson on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:10PM (#31064967)
By way of example some states have discounted rates / special rates for cotton gins. Here is one. https://www.epelectric.com/files/html/Rates/TX_Tariff_Schedu...

Such things are complicated to figure out fully, the subsidized power might not be subsidized directly by the power generators / power distributors. In some cases two bills are generated for the duration of the power subsidy so the subsidized part only sees the subsidized rate.

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