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> creating a competing utility company wouldn't make sense competitively in any way, so naturally there's a monopoly So how come there are countries without a
by ascar 5y ago
> creating a competing utility company wouldn't make sense competitively in any way, so naturally there's a monopoly
So how come there are countries without a natural monopoly and with competing utility providers?
Also running your own generator with oil isn't a few orders of magnitude (i.e. at least 100x) more expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even one order of magnitude more expensive, but maybe just twice as expensive.
I also don't think GP's simile is good, but some of your arguments against it are just blatantly false.
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