>If that were true, we wouldn't have private airlines because planes would be falling out of the sky every day and nobody would fly. The economics of airlines

>If that were true, we wouldn't have private airlines because planes would be falling out of the sky every day and nobody would fly. The economics of airlines and monopoly energy companies are completely different. Flights are subject to intense economic pressure, the airline industry has very thin margins of profit. You can avoid an unsafe plane but you can't avoid an unsafe statewide power company.