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Bill: Power Grid Act. 2149
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: April 2151
Description[?]:
| A single private company that owns, and maintains the nations power grid is more beneficial than the current nationalised, state owned power grid. Economically a single private company provides a greater range for growth through investment, the freedom to make a profit, and the employment of more workers due to the expansion of a profit driven company. Also the quality of service will increase due to the need to maintain profits and investments, keeping customers satisfied, and the employment of highly trained workers who are attracted to the higher wages that a private company can offer. The government running of the power grid is a major interference in the overall economic growth of Hobrazia and must come to an end in order for the possibility for a better economy, one that only privatised industry can bring. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Current: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: A single private company owns and maintains the national power grid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:06:09, December 03, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Power Grid Act. 2149 |
| Message | Let the economy grow without the state owning or interfering in any major aspect of industry. |
| Date | 09:34:32, December 03, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Power Grid Act. 2149 |
| Message | I'm not sure that privatising the grid is the est way to improve the economy. |
| Date | 11:41:03, December 03, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Power Grid Act. 2149 |
| Message | A single private company that owns, and maintains the nations power grid would be less beneficial than the current nationalised, state owned power grid. Economically a single private company provides a greater risk for growth of the industry due to the demand to make a profit, and the increased possiblility of employing less workers due to the expansion of a profit driven company. Also the quality of service will decrease due to the need to maintain profits linked to a reduction in investment as customers are forced to use a profit seeking company that has no obligation to maintain a high standard of service provision, and the risk of reducing the wages and number of highly trained workers who are attracted to the lower wages that a private company would offer in order to maintain ever increasing profit margins to share holders, not to mention the likelyhood of increasing the costs to the customers as prices are increased in an never ending search for greater income. I think that answers every point. |
| Date | 11:09:10, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Power Grid Act. 2149 |
| Message | NO WAY!!! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 92 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 180 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 128 |
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