Here’s another post that sat for months as a draft. No reason to sit on it, other than being distracted and engaging in video game playing and beer drinking.
I have always felt that utilities should be public. Healthcare should be nationalized and treated as a public utility. Internet access should be a public utility. And I think residential and commercial electric power should be owned and maintained by taxpayers. I think it’s incredible that New York Governor Cuomo flirted with that idea last summer after a poorly handled transformer fire caused a localized blackout on Manhattan’s west side.
In this no-longer-young century, we have had several pandemics and several failures in our infrastructure. We need a new commitment to rebuild, and that includes making important pieces of infrastructure public. That includes our power grid.
Does Con-Ed know where the bodies are buried? How in the world does this corporation keep it's license? And by the way, wasn't Trump going to spend trillions on a massive infrastructure program, which would, at last, give us a 21st century power grid, among other modern wonders?