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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source
Date: 11 Oct 2024 01:28:54 GMT
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:32:03 -0400, bad sector wrote:

> Since electricity was nationalised in Quebec it's being offered at cost
> plus profit, the total for domestic consumption is 1/6 or 1/8 of the
> rate in Arizona (I forget the exact ratio) while shaving enough off to
> finance development. We do have hydro resources but even if we were
> generating with fuel the ratio would still be rather embare-assing.
> That's what I mean by vital infrastructures.

It was ill conceived and there were other problems but Hydro-Quebec was 
the nail in the Maine Yankee nuclear plant's coffin. It was one of the 
casualties of the energy deregulation fiasco of the late '90s as cheap 
power flooded the New England states. 

I don't know if deregulation achieved lower energy prices for the New 
England consumers. In this state it allowed the power company to sell its 
generating capacity to an out of state company and use the money to 
reinvent itself as an internet company -- just in time to go bankrupt in 
the dotcom bust.

So much for wise government policy.