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To: greg s who wrote (12514)	6/4/2020 8:30:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 13056

I wouldn't expect private service to always be good, esp. when there is little or no competition. OTOH you also have really bad government owned utilities as well. In the US government ownership of water is more common then government ownership of electricity, but what you have for the electricity (and sometimes the water as well) often is privately owned but heavily regulated monopolies. Generally not a big fan of government granted monopolies or heavy regulation, but I'd probably go for that before direct government ownership. The study that I linked to before was of course not in the US. Private ownership seemed to work out better for Argentina than the previous government ownership did. I didn't read the whole article but it seems this was also a situation where the utilities were regulated, not just "you can charge whatever you want without any competition".