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[bluerooibos]

They don't need to be regulated, they need to be forcefully taken into public ownership. Utilities shouldn't be privatised, and neither should public transport for that matter. All these companies do is siphon off profits to shareholders without re-investing and maintaining the infrastructure as they should.

[wolfendin]

In a hurricane, 90% of the damage is in distribution, the only thing that fixes it are boots on the ground

[userabchn]

The mayors of Houston for the past few decades have been Democrats.

[freen]

Does the mayor have any influence whatsoever over Centerpoint, the private company given a monopoly by the state government which has been run by Republicans for god knows how long?

[bequanna]

Houston city government is largely comprised on Democrats and has been for some time.

Also, California has dealt with issues related to electric reliability and is by no means a conservative state.

[freen]

Who gave Centerpoint the monopoly? Who holds center point accountable? Houston Mayor? Nope.

State government. Republicans.

That you for making an excellent point.

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

I'm struggling to come up with a Democrat run city that demonstrates they govern better than anyone else.

Chicago? New York? San Fransisco? Baltimore?

[seanmcdirmid]

I’m struggling to come up with republican run cities in general. Mesa, Jacksonville, Colorado Springs, Fairbanks? Any other ones?

[freen]

Take any metric you like: child mortality, educational outcomes, hunger, per capita income, media income, purchasing power parity, you name it.

Compare those cities to traditionally Republican run states.

Try it.

There is a very very good reason why the best and brightest leave rural republican areas and move to the big cities: it is better in almost every way we measure human wellbeing.