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Nebraska is a public power state. We haven't had any IOUs in Nebraska since the thirties. Our Power District's are political subdivisions. Each has its own elected board. They are exempt from taxation, very, very, lightly regulated, and prohibited from doing anything except: Generate, transmit and distribute electrical power. They get special access to low-cost federal power from the dams on the Missouri River. All of them are very focused on keeping rates as low as possible. If they don't, there is always an election coming up. Nebraska is very late to adopt wind. We had to change the state law. The Power District's refused to spend a dime on windmill's (no tax-increment financing for the Power Districts) - Public power can work - you have to keep the politicians away from it. It doesn't hurt that the power districts are pretty small usually. We all know what is going on.

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A faint glimmer of hope!

How do you keep "the politicians" away?

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Scatter a trail of cash and little boys leading in the opposite direction?

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divide and conquer - a small number of petty, elected, politicians run the power districts - that is their only duty, it is their public trust. THEY keep the other politicians away. There is no evil IOU to paint red. The Public Service Commision in Nebraska is toothless against the power districts.

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OUCH! … but sadly true.

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I find myself laughing and crying in the same breath here...

bsn

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It really bothers me that this may be a viable solution.

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Truth there Chris ⬆️⬆️⬆️

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😂😂

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It´s actually the lawyers. Politicians are merely tools.

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Partly right GHH. It a well known biological fact that a certain percentage of lawyers will always, when its dark and foggy, and the temperature is hovering in the low thirties, metamorphize into politicians.

But I completely agree that most politicians are, indeed, tools.

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Yes! Everybody should keep in mind that no decisions are made without lawyers. I once saw a group of lawyers having to make a decision, so they called in another lawyer.

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