With summer heating up, Donald Trump promising more deregulation if he wins, and record storms causing blackouts leaving multitudes in sweltering darkness, we decided to seek timely guidance about electricity’s future from our favorite electricity guru, the Question Man QM. 1. Will less regulation and more competition mean better prices for consumers QM Your question implies that deregulation came with effective competition—which it didn’t.
My question is will regulators feel as generous when, as a result of rising costs, they have to increase rates rather than just not bothering to lower them Inflation is a lot less fun than deflation. 3.