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Originally Posted by fatmat8
put the blame on mrs thatcher for sell all these providers of power etc. off to the highest bidders i guess
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Yep, why not?
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Originally Posted by Osem
One of the reasons they were privatised was a desire by HMG to remove the huge cost of running these utilities from coming out of govt. coffers. Things were not better before - there was massive underinvestment, huge inefficiency and serious structural costs inevitably mounting up. Renationalising these utilities would not only cost a huge amount upfront but would simply pass the costs of what still needs to be done onto the taxpayer once again. Keeping prices artificially low would simply mean increased taxes.
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So if it's not the taxpayer/man in the street whose forking out then who is. Keeping prices artificially high simply means being ripped off to keep fat cat CEO's and shareholders sweet.
If it weren't denationalised and El Gov was screwing it and us up then, at least, we have the option of voting them out. The way things are everybody is helpless as their is no effective competion - by design!!!!
I guess the bottom line is, who do you wanna be screwed over by. El Gov or the energy companies. The way things are we are getting screwed over by both.
Not that things have ever been any differnt or ever will
