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pa_bourbon t1_iy3og4a wrote

Reply to comment by Fantastic_Chemical67 in The danger of for-profit water companies such as Aqua America by [deleted]

Explain pittsburgh water and sewer authority then. A city run by democrats and the utility is woefully underinvested. Not everything is politics.

Most of the poorest run and underinvested utilities are in big cities. Big cities trend blue…..

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Fantastic_Chemical67 t1_iy4el29 wrote

Yeah that turns out so well for municipalities that decide to privatize their utilities.

Privatizing public services is almost always a complete disaster because there is no market competition for a utility.

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pa_bourbon t1_iy4iobv wrote

Got it. You’re one of those people that prefers your bill to be cheap and to kick the can down the road to a future generation to pay for the problems that your generation neglects. This is what the baby boomer generation did to most of our government owned utilities by the way.

It’s a very short sighted strategy that government owned utilities use. Because by the time the bill comes due, today’s politicians will be gone from office.

But keep whining about greed, etc.

No matter how much you want it to be cheap and free, reliable utility service costs real money. Those costs are increasing like costs are everywhere else. For some reason we thought it was a good idea to close a bunch of nuclear power plants around the world, so electricity is only going to get more expensive.

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Fantastic_Chemical67 t1_iy4wmo3 wrote

Yeah if only the altruistic millionaire CEO could save us from ourselves by raising rates astronomically and reaping millions in compensation.

Average CEO tenure is less than 5 years. Less time than most politicians stay in office btw.

Seriously get bent. Your ideology is gross.

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