The pushback against alternative energy continues, with the latest argument being that since customers are paying for these facilities, there’s no sense in doing it.
The latest salvo comes from the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, which criticizes the state’s, and the nation’s, system of giving utilities a monopoly in specific territories in exchange for government regulation of pricing.
This system, contends investigative researcher Michelle Brodsky, does not provide proper market incentives for a company to keep prices low while still making money.
“When a price is set by the government and corporate bureaucrats, … they work out what it…