Das Stromnetz braucht enorme Verbesserungen. Niemand weiß, wer dafür bezahlen wird.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/the-electric-grid-needs-huge-upgrades-no-one-knows-who-will-pay-for-them-2d9e2c11?st=mXmnib&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Das Stromnetz braucht enorme Verbesserungen. Niemand weiß, wer dafür bezahlen wird.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/the-electric-grid-needs-huge-upgrades-no-one-knows-who-will-pay-for-them-2d9e2c11?st=mXmnib&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Wasn’t that long ago when we knew what to do, how to do it, and how to pay for it, but then we ended up with the proven and unrepentant rapist, business fraud, serial liar, and obvious traitor to our nation and god-king of the Republican Party Trump.
President Biden had us moving in a positive, forward leaning manner that prescribed clear goals and presented the values to get the job done.
I mean it’s pretty obvious who *should* pay for them…
Here in North Carolina there is a monopoly on electricity by Duke Energy. Last year they posted 4.9 **billion** in profits and they have requested an increase on electricity prices of 30%. It’s going to be granted because Duke owns the politicians in NC.
Duke **should** be paying for any and all upgrades but they’ll just be increasing the rates to make us pay for it rather than take a hit to the profit line. We’ll also probably be hit with higher taxes to also offset anything.
In the end it’ll be the poors paying.
Repatriation of the wealth stolen from us by the Epstein class. Why are Dems not running on this?!?
When the next democrat gets in office, they’ll push through the minimum for upgrading infrastructure, and the republicans will use that investment in people’s future to justify another republican in office, and the cycle will continue.
I miss the days when the public utilities were owned by the government.
It used to be a 90% top tax rate
Why doesn’t ceo’s favorite new workers (AI) pay for it
We know who is going to pay.
BOHICA!
In the US? Nobody is going to pay. It’s just not going to happen at all. Once existing privatized infrastructure has deteriorated to the point where it can no longer be patched up and kept limping along, we’ll see all sorts of „private sector innovations“ from „disruptive start-ups“ building microgrids that are natural regional monopolies, and they’ll push for laws that’ll make it illegal to opt out and use your own solar panels. These start-ups will inevitably congeal or be bought out into one to three giants that’ll be „too big to fail.“
Either the energy companies should pay for it, or they should be legally be required to be private non-profit entities.
You can’t have it both ways as far as being a for profit business as well as expect taxpayers to fund your business projects.
If only these energy companies just pulled themselves up by the bootstraps…
I saw a clip yesterday of how fast the military literally burns through money. Maybe if they stopped lighting things on fire for no goddamn reason we could have a better power grid?
America just keeps on winning and winning.
Lol!
Of course we do. Rich people didn’t get rich by paying for anything.
Well, „we“ meaning those of us who actually pay attention to things happening in the world, not trash reporters writing clickbait bullshit articles.
The people will pay for them as corporate greed continues to extract blood from the stone.
Since the taxpayers will ultimately assume the burden of paying for the upgrades like everything else we need to NATIONALIZE THE FUCKING POWER GRID.
What the actual fuck is wrong with this country thing the backbones of our country should be owned by capital and paid for by labor.
The sectors of private equity that we need to survive need to be 51% nationalized as a back stop against capital.
Also the government needs to be the biggest employer. It would bring stability. The government can pay citizens to help other citizens instead of paying capital to „help“ citizens as is gone now.
I know who will pay for them. It’s everyone reading this Reddit thread right now.
Have to eat the rich, only a few examples and all the stolen money will suddenly start being used for things we paid for.
Not billionaires!
Anybody but the billionaires contributing to support the infrastructure to help continuing their extraction of wealth – their bottom line must be protected at all costs!
The Democrats will pay for them – then get crucified in the next election as a „reward“ for trying to help people.
Homeowners are going to pay for a lot of it, to get cheap reliable battery backed solar in their fortress of comfort while everyone else watches their grid bounce up and down.
easy the american way: socialize the cost, privatize the profits