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A comment on UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas Shortages. Parent comment

Re:UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas S... by adrianba on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:03PM (#33114076)
> The US is the most deregulated, pro-market, capitalist developed nation of size

Well, here in the US, I still buy electricity from the government. Consumer energy deregulation in the UK started in the late 80s and electricity has been sold through private companies for years.

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Re:UK Plans for Three-Hour Power Blackouts in Event of Gas S... by gizajob on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:12PM (#33114167)
It's not so much energy deregulation that's the problem, more the fact that we gave away the resources of oil and gas for peanuts and now pay through the nose for them, compared to say Norway or Saudi Arabia where they oil and gas stayed as a semi-state-owned resource.
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