>Tom,
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>>>>Back to power plants. :-)
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>>>*chuckle*
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>>>Get the stupid state government out of business they do not understand! <g>
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>>>Thanks for the chat!
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>>Doug;
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>>Concerning power lpants. The City of Santa Clara generates it's own electricity and for decades has been the cheapest in the Bay Area. Beats PG&E by miles. San Francisco owns the Hetch Hetchy water Works and provides cheap water to the San Francisco Bay Area. There are businesses owned by government that work to the advantage of it's citizens - but we know this is not always the case!
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>>Tom
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>You bet. We just moved from Kaysville to Laton, UT. Kaysville has their own power system. Thing is is that they purchase it elsewhere. The prices weren't all that bad but I'm sure they were dependent on the spot market fluctuations.
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>What most/some don't seem to understand is that when you add layers of regulators you just slow things down and when you need decisions made that's never any good it seems.
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>If a governmental agency is able to produce power at a lower cost than private industry - more power to them (no pun intended). I'd bet that when someone posts an example if we were to do a little digging we'd find that they a) didn't pay taxes when private companies do (unfair competition right?) or the land they own doesn't pay taxes or they spread the actual expenses around to cover or mask the real costs.

Doug;

Agreed. Also, add the complexity private business must deal with paying investors dividends, paying back loans, bribing politicians and inspectors, to name a few more items.

Tom