The problem with these conversations is that capitalists seem incredibly brittle-minded. Meaning even a small, and fair, critic devolves into "oh so you want co

The problem with these conversations is that capitalists seem incredibly brittle-minded. Meaning even a small, and fair, critic devolves into "oh so you want communism?" Public vs private isn't black and white, it's a spectrum. Energy providers sit on this spectrum. In some way, they're public infrastructure. In others, they're private companies. Slightly pushing them more towards "public" via regulation is what we HAVE been doing for a long time. This shouldn't be setting off your communism senses. If it is, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works in regard to these kind-of-public-infrastructure goods and services.