02-21-2021, 04:42 AM
Utilities just are not services that make a lot of sense as retail offerings. They're commodities.
We had this in GA. You could sign up with whomever, but they all got their natural gas from the same place. And so you pretty much paid the same price, fixed or variable unless and until you guessed wrong on which way to go, which is probably how the margin existed that supported having so many redundant "providers."
There's no way a "free market" creates and sustains such nonsense without a politician hawking it as a consumer benefit.
We had this in GA. You could sign up with whomever, but they all got their natural gas from the same place. And so you pretty much paid the same price, fixed or variable unless and until you guessed wrong on which way to go, which is probably how the margin existed that supported having so many redundant "providers."
There's no way a "free market" creates and sustains such nonsense without a politician hawking it as a consumer benefit.