ohhhhh, my god. Yeah. What a fucking mess. Investment and maintenance matters!
It's on a different scale, but I look at stuff like the regional transit authority here, which for years has had to spend capital budget on maintenance instead due to insufficient funding*, and I wonder if we'd have similar problems if electricity was a public utility as well.
* RTA is a mix of state funding and ride fares; they theoretically *could* hike fares enough to cover the full budget but then ridership would decline too far.
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It's on a different scale, but I look at stuff like the regional transit authority here, which for years has had to spend capital budget on maintenance instead due to insufficient funding*, and I wonder if we'd have similar problems if electricity was a public utility as well.
* RTA is a mix of state funding and ride fares; they theoretically *could* hike fares enough to cover the full budget but then ridership would decline too far.