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Environment & Energy

Think. Again.

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1. Public utilities have no business selling their assets.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Dec 29, 2024, 06:24 PM

Dec 2024

If the community (who owns public utilities) wanted to stop running this gas utility, they should have simply phased it out of service while assisting the low-income community in electrifying their homes.

Government is not a business, it is government.

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