Power To The People

Posts have been a bit awry this week as the wave of blackouts continues apace. In this context the idea that we should privatise the electricity service in NSW is one of the more loony suggestions doing the rounds. Does anyone with their pants on the right way around really think that we'd be getting services restored in the time frame we have if this service was run by, say, Sol Trujillo? At the moment my electricity provider, Integral Energy, is focussed towards the customer. If it was focussed towards shareholders I can't see them ensuring that we have the maintenance crews on stand-by to deal with emergencies like the wave of storms we've experienced this week. Needless to say, the parasites from the Merchant Banks are circling like Vikings outside a monastery. I just don't get it - if we lynched these bludgers somehow we'd be the bad guys. That can't be right, after all, it's our oxygen they're stealing.