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Bill: Complete Privatisation of Energy Production
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Conservative Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2143
Description[?]:
| The NCP believes it would be benefical for our energy sector to complete the privatisation process. The national grid would remain under public control leaving private companies to compete against each other to provide electricity at the lowest cost to the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
Current: All power stations are publicly owned.
Proposed: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:06:04, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | The IFP has always supported government control over key aspects of society. Power production and distribution is vital to our economy and to the daily life of all Ikradonians. A recent proposal of ours to nationalise energy production may have failed to obtain the necessary majority in the Assembly, but we will not support full privatization of such a vital sector. |
| Date | 04:03:35, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Neu Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbe | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | Ikradonian Future Party i fully support you bid for the privatisation of Energy Production... You have my vote in the senate... yours Eckart |
| Date | 06:39:37, November 18, 2005 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | If at first you don't succeed, try try again. But if you know you will not succeed and have the reason why explained to you on numerous occasions, trying again is just going to annoy everyone. Oh well, at least it keeps our visibility ratings up. |
| Date | 13:13:58, November 18, 2005 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | The NCP does not understand the view of the NDP. After the recent election the massive rise in seats for the NCP means that we need the support of 150 seats to pass any law, meaning we only need the support one or two other parties. So, while the NDP disagrees with our legislation that doesn't automatically mean the legislation has no chance of passing. |
| Date | 22:29:23, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Evolution Party | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | OOC: If I could reference California's rolling blackouts ICly, I would have done it by now, but the point is that power companies will purposefully underproduce to spike their profits because they can get away with it after all the deregulation. Their only responsibility is to increase profits, so if they can make more off what power they do produce without having to pay the maintenance costs to produce the capacity they've shut down, then it's good business sense for them. Thus the entirety of the sensible legislators in this body say "screw it" to this policy. |
| Date | 02:24:17, November 19, 2005 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Complete Privatisation of Energy Production |
| Message | But you know that the parties which are against energy privatisation are in the majority, because this issue has come up before and they voted it down. We also gained more seats than you did. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 151 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 373 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 75 |
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