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 @BF25V9J from Alabama  agreed…1wk1W

If you do not have completion you have no incentive to improve or be efficient. For example Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico has one power provider and due to corruption and government inefficiency made no capital infrastructure investment and as a result they did not bury their wires the way they should have and when hurricane Maria came, most of the island suffered prolonged power shortages lasting years.

 @BCWF94K from Tennessee  agreed…2mos2MO

View the Ed Snowden case for NSA overreach information. The government is always tied to the political movements of the time, but profit is not. Theodore Roosevelt's and Taft's approach to monopolies was to regulate them, not control them themselves.

 @BC9F8F7 from Missouri  disagreed…3mos3MO

All of American runs on electricity, what would we do with spoiled and non-working items in our home?

 @BC63SZV from California  disagreed…3mos3MO

Nationalizing the electric grid will be better for everyone and has no downsides to people that already have electricity.

 @BC58L2H from Texas  disagreed…3mos3MO

I believe this because the power grids around the US are old and have been there for decades, and could further cause a problem.

 @BC5GXN7 from California  disagreed…3mos3MO

The electric grid is basically a monopoly already, so private ownership just means profit without real competition. Nationalizing it would prioritize reliability, long-term investment, and fair access instead of shareholder returns.

 @BC5C5C8 from Utah  disagreed…3mos3MO

If we have a major blackout our grid is not capable of coming back. More over, if we become more reliant on electricity such as cars, buses, public transportation, our grid will not be able to supply enough power.

 @BC56LCH from Texas  disagreed…3mos3MO

Since true competition cannot exist in the infrastructure itself, private entities aren't "competing" to lower prices; they are managing a captive market. A nationalized system removes the middleman (shareholders) and reinvests revenue directly into the infrastructure.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

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