August 18, 2003
Kucinich on Deregulation
Lawrence Lessig has been making room for Dennis Kucinich to post some entries on his blog. Here is an interesting post from Congressman Kucinich about his views on deregulation of the energy industries in Ohio. Interesting back-story, and a good look at where Kucinich came from. Whether deregulation is the right thing to do or not is obviously debatable. It is interesting to note that most of the finger pointing that is going on so far seems to be aimed at FirstEnergy Corp., the company that was attempting to purchase Muny Light in Cleveland.
Posted by crutan at August 18, 2003 09:33 AMI think Kucinich is wrong on deregulation like he is wrong on most other issues. The amount of regulation he wants would cripple the power grid, and frighten away many power companies. The results would be more shortages and much higher costs.
Posted by: Joshua at August 19, 2003 02:17 AMInstead of regulation, I think it is time for the government to take over many “required” services. Yes, it’s the bit of socialist in me, but really, no one should profit on the core needs of a society.
Rather, it should be delivered as part of the package we pay our taxes for.
Nationalized rail transportation, health care and electrical service sound good to me… of course, each with proper management.
Robbie D.
Posted by: Robbie D at August 19, 2003 05:16 PMLessig’s got a nice blog. Mr Bennett posts there.
Posted by: Rick at August 19, 2003 07:52 PM
