#municipalization — Public Fediverse posts
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An alternative to leaving Duke Energy and forming a traditional municipal utility might be creating a self-funding municipal sustainable energy utility like the one Ann Arbor's developing. They will do solar and batteries for households using cheap municipal financing, but alongside their existing private utility, without trying to take it over.
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Leaving Duke Energy and forming a municipal-run utility instead could save residents millions on their electric bills. The estimated savings would average about 7% each year for the first five years, but then residents’ bills would be about 18% lower annually in the following 25 years as benefits accumulated.
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@researchfairy @peternlewis Also the same question: Should unelected pressure groups control this thing via officials claiming to act in "the public good"?
There's no real “public”—just individuals with different and conflicting aims. Concepts like the “common good” or “public interest” are excuses to sacrifice others' interests and rights.
#Privatization of force and #nationalization / #municipalization of property are both civil war. The latter is only slower.