Opinion | Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have.
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As regulated monopolies, utilities have the unique ability to force customers to fund their political activities through monthly bills.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/647217

But around the US, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition, and they are probably using your money to do it.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The political system in the US is designed to create competing centers of power, none of which has full control. This is an example of that: state governments and utility regulators in some states are engaged in policy at odds with federal government policy, which currently subsidizes a shift to wind and solar. The pay-to-play nature of much of US government is particularly problematic in this regard.