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kaijuerotica · 1 year ago

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so I'm not sure why Maine would be considered the first to do this considering I literally live in a place with a publicly owned power company. I might just be misunderstanding state run vs publicly owned? BUT, OPPD in Nebraska is publicly owned, governed by an elected board, and is essentially the only power provider for the entire state.

and just in case anyone wants to pearl clutch abt what this means, this is data from the company as of 2022

[photo ID: A green infographic saying "OPPD rates are below the national average.* Residential 22.8% below. Commercial 28.8% below. Industrial 19.4% below. Retail 27.3% below. *According to preliminary December 2022 figures from the Energy Information Administration" /end ID]

anyway, publicly owned utilities rule

Maine?? Hello?

#nebraska is super weird bc we're a red state (or purple in the best case bc we split electoral votes)#but then we have surprisingly progressive policies in place #like publicly owned power for 76 years according to google (and which replaced a previous private company even)#free college below certain income levels (last i checked that level was 60k for a single earner)#pretty sure we expanded medicare a few years back too #then suddenly you get shit like the governor throwing a hissy fit over the governor of colorado asking ppl #to conscientiously avoid meat for one (1) day #and our governer throwing a hissy fit resulting in him declaring a whole month as Eat Beef Month #he literally called it 'meats back on the menu month' like what even dude #not to mention that yes meat packing is a big industry here #but most meat alternatives are soybean based #and yall will never guess what nebraska's largest agricultural export is (it's not corn)#anyway that's yalls weird lil rundown on the cognitive dissonance of living in nebraska

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