What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago

we are all in this together, mate 🤡