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There are many nonprofit electric co-ops providing high quality service in America. Public transit in America most often the answer would be no. But public tr

There are many nonprofit electric co-ops providing high quality service in America. Public transit in America most often the answer would be no. But public transit of say the rest of the world with multi-billions of dollars invested over the years into the public transit infrastructure leading to public owned and operated highly functional transit systems. A for profit company will invest when it makes sense from a bottom line perspective. A public non-profit without corruption will invest when it makes sense from a public good perspective.

rayiner 7y ago
Non-profit co-ops are not comparable in scale and challenges to big power providers. Especially because they don’t operate the sort of large scale transmission grids that caused PG&E’s wildfires. (They’re dependent on the big providers for that capital intensive infrastructure.) That’s why I used transit as an example. It’s similarly large scale in terms of capital costs, intensive maintenance of outside equipment, etc.