Drawing the wrong conclusion IX — challenging a governmentally protected monopoly edition | The Locker Room

Promoting the free market in electricity despite a state-instituted utility monopoly, fighting for better prices and, yes, choice in electricity sources for individual consumers (as opposed to the one-size-fits-all-but-pleases-none-but-our-shareholders-guaranteed-a-hefty-return electricity portfolio mandated by North Carolina) — these would be positive developments. What other free-market ideas is the Atlanta Tea Party bringing to the debate?

Earlier this month, Debbie Dooley, another co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, urged the state’s elected utility regulators on the Public Service Commission, all Republicans, to force Georgia Power to use more solar energy.

A Tea Party? Urging government by Republicans to force a government monopoly to do something? And that something would be forcing ratepayers to buy even more expensive solar energy? Dooley concedes, in AJC’s words, that “if her organization viewed it as politically possible, it would support repealing a law granting monopoly rights to utilities.”

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