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Bill: Private but Regulated Retail Energy Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2372
Description[?]:
| Whereas, There are repeated calls, which have mercifully for Likatonian consumers so far failed, to allow retail energy companies, including monopolies in any one area, to exist and do whatever they please, including using monopoly power to drive out competitors and then gouge their customers, and Whereas, We would like to blunt the appeal of this even to those who might prefer private ownership of electric utilities, recognizing that as long as the state owns the power grid and generates some power monopolies can be minimized, but Whereas, We recognize that something as important and necessary as energy MUST be regulated to make sure that no private utility may use monopoly power to gouge its customers, We present the proposal to allow *regulated* private companies to deliver energy, regulated both to prevent gouging and to ensure competition. This actually was part of our party's original proposal many years ago, to combine publicly generated electricity with private, but regulated, sale of such. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy provision is left to local governments.
Current: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Proposed: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:51:34, March 10, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Private but Regulated Retail Energy Bill |
| Message | We like the idea, but cannot (at this time) sanction this direction. |
| Date | 03:26:24, March 10, 2007 CET | From | AM Feminazi Movement | To | Debating the Private but Regulated Retail Energy Bill |
| Message | Happy to support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 141 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 32 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
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