Canada

Look for your rates to double at a minimum. And, the government eventually funds the infrastructure anyway, while the private utilities pocket the profits. It's all bullshit. I live in Alberta, moving here from BC. I know. Electricity rates here are insane. One hot day. One. And there are rolling brown outs.

This winter, we had a ton of power outages. It was unreal. One was 4 hours long because of a bird. One was 3 hours and they couldn't figure out what was causing it. There was one that I'll give them - we had a wind storm. Power was out all day, but at least that time was understandable.

When I was growing up here, we rarely had power outages. I don't remember any that lasted more than an hour or 2, EXCEPT for ONE. The day of the '87 Edmonton tornado. And we got power back within 12 hours despite being about a mile or less from where the tornado touched down and despite a whole row of high voltage lines toppling from the winds.

No, privatizing isn't good for anyone but rich CEOs.