“But if you don’t pay into the grid, there will be no money for maintenance of the grid!!!”
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What, like all these private power companies have been doing a good job of maintaining that grid infrastructure anyway? Don’t make me laugh any harder. They’ve taken all of their profits from the last century, give or take, and largely done the corporate equivalent of blowing it all on hookers and cocaine rather than reinvesting any but the bare minimum back into their own infrastructure.
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If it isn’t profitable to run the grid, that’s great! To use an example, the sewer system in my county is run directly by… the county. It is not a for profit enterprise, because as soon as you pull your head out of your own ass you can realize that trying to make modern basic necessities like power, water, and sewer access private businesses is a moronic idea. One which leads to inevitable catastrophe, because capitalists are going to do what capitalists do. The fact that these idiots are straight-facedly behaving as if we “owe” them profits in perpetuity and expect us to swallow it is almost as bad as the fact that, by and large, the public still does.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I find it amusing that this story comes up right next to this other one about German power costing less than nothing because of renewables.
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/34786535
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Green energy is somehow both way too expensive and dangerously cheap.
That can literally be said by the same individuals in adjacent sentences depending on the narrative they’re spinning at the time.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
TLSR daily on YouTube was spreading fud also recently. It’s amusing to see the fossil fuel media reach. It also helps identify who are the shitheads that sell out for pennies.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Can you point to a specific video? I find they’re usually pretty accurate with facts, and they even recently had their FAQ where they addressed some misses they had.