Privatizing essential services doesn’t make them better or more efficient. In virtually every example of this—from water to sanitation to medicine to education to energy—consumers end up getting hurt by privatization. from @Hope4All https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114080588455094451 - ThreadSky

chopaganda.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy • 23 days ago

Privatizing essential services doesn’t make them better or more efficient. In virtually every example of this—from water to sanitation to medicine to education to energy—consumers end up getting hurt by privatization.

from https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114080588455094451

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Neddyo.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@chopaganda I beg to differ, it's a VERY efficient way to make rich fucktards even richer

AG3rD.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@chopaganda https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All This is data from 2021 to 2022 (right after Ukraine invasion). UK energy is mostly natural gas so was vulnerable, compared to nuclear energy France. Here is the UK gov link showing a more modest increase this year […]

NatePHedi.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@chopaganda one of the things I find so galling about this is that with utilities, there’s generally no choice. If I want water or power or natural gas, there’s only one company that services my area for each utility. It’s essentially illegal to live off-grid. And if I bought solar, the utility […]

wpoland.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@NatePHedi @chopaganda I’m in the final stretches of getting solar. I signed the contract last June. The longest wait was ~5 months for the power company to approve the interconnection. Took 4 weeks for permit for the solar canopy being installed over my patio. (Parts are due to start arriving […]

NatePHedi.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@wpoland @chopaganda I looked into getting solar last year, but with Nem 3.0 and our relatively low energy usage, the break-even estimate on our investment was outside the warrantied life-span of the solar system. Meaning there was a good chance, our panels would need to be replaced before we […]

wpoland.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy•23 days ago

@NatePHedi @chopaganda I have a side business I run out of of my home so I think I can take a chuck of the cost as a home office expense, on top of all the tax credits. Also have an EV and all electric heat (heat pump with electric coils backup as well. We also had a dilapidated back porch that […]

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