Aren’t you making the case for the OP? That it cost so much to extend a line for a thousand feet… how about the thousands of miles of lines it takes to service

Aren’t you making the case for the OP? That it cost so much to extend a line for a thousand feet… how about the thousands of miles of lines it takes to service rural users? The same is true for all infrastructure in that it gets less expensive per user as density increases. The cost to hook up an apartment building to the grid is a few houses in a suburb but services 10x the people at the same revenue per person. The cost to service a single home in a rural area might wipe the revenue out from a dozen apartments. Frankly, I’m sick of subsidizing the rural welfare crowd. Let them pay the market price for their roads and utilities if they want to cosplay as Galt gulchers.