| the possibilities have already been explored and the methods already exist. You don't have to advertise anything. The power companies have a contract with the city. You don't get a choice. It's not like I could say "hmm...Xcel is too expensive, I think I'll try Gulf Power". The maintenence of the new infrastructure would certainly be cheaper than the current maintence needs or at the least, the same (but not more).
So the only thing that actually costs any real money is building new infrastructure. But wait a minute, the government could do that! They could offer power companies many incentives to build new infrastructure. But they don't. The government are the same people who own the oil companies. They know that as soon as new forms of energy are availible to the people that the people will not buy oil products anymore and they'll lose their money. They don't give a damn what the people want nor what's actually best for the people. They only care about using government power to grant themselves an energy monopoly to line their own pockets. |