Free Electricity? The pod bros from the All-in Podcast talked about energy policy this week and made an interesting point, completely insane but why not? They said that America could make all residential electricity free by increasing the cost of industrial energy by 50% so that C&I owners would build their own power plants. Here’s the link for the exchange if you’re intrigued by the concept and/or want to tell me how this would actually work (also how much utilities would support this…)
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