Originally Posted by GmeHunter
No sir! If she wasn't approving those rate increases, then they would have had to throttle back wasting all that money.

You have it backwards.

The government regulates utilities, and forces them reduce pollution to certain levels, reducing pollution costs billions of dollars in design and construction, the only way for a power utility to recoup the costs of pollution control projects is to raise the rates.

If you were a building contractor, building houses for people, and all the sudden the government stepped in and said, "From now on you will need to do an archeological dig on any sight you build a home on before you build, and it will cost you $50,000." Would you just eat that cost, or would you pass it on to the customer?

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