What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 2 hours ago

That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 11 hours ago

we are all in this together, mate 🤡