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Will it though? It seems like the "free market" and political maneuvers might be able to keep the energy costs elevated, similar to what OPEC is currently doing
by jasonsb 2y ago
Will it though? It seems like the "free market" and political maneuvers might be able to keep the energy costs elevated, similar to what OPEC is currently doing for oil.
- cnity 2y agoIt seems to me that monopolising solar will be a lot harder than monopolising oil, because of the substantially lower overhead and resource competition.
- 082349872349872 2y agoAlso solar doesn't have refining/transport bottlenecks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas#Expansion_to_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas#E...
- jasonsb 2y agoIt has weather/season/storage/transport bottlenecks.
- jasonsb 2y agoNot really. The most important part is already monopolized: transport. Then we have storage, which is not monopolized yet because there's very little of it. My bet is that the transport monopoly will take over storage as well.