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moniss

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7. Maybe

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 8, 2022, 02:10 PM

Jan 2022

we need to make sure that while we are transitioning we also don't make the mistake of creating an industry that is able to maintain a stranglehold on electricity and the charging infrastructure. I don't want to see an Exxon of electricity or a BP of charging stations. I am afraid it may come however. I believe that the oligarchs will watch the infrastructure/generation/distribution build out and then attempt to buy it up and consolidate it for their control/exploitation.

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