> free markets You cannot "free market" infrastructure that is expensive to duplicate and uses up scarce resources. A "second grid" that is 100% reliable, for

> free markets You cannot "free market" infrastructure that is expensive to duplicate and uses up scarce resources. A "second grid" that is 100% reliable, for example, would be terribly wasteful of the physical space required to run it. In addition, "free market" didn't give us universal electrification to begin with. Why would you assume that it can run it? At this point, we have run the "deregulation" experiments in California and Texas (and elsewhere). They have failed. Critical infrastructure needs to be managed by a political process.