Nevada Question 3 – Energy

The Buggy Whip Reaction

Nevada’s Question 3 empowers the Legislature to minimize regulations on the Energy Market and eliminate legal energy monopolies (2018)

The airways are filled with “Vote NO” ads, largely sponsored and funded by public utilities and their supportive industries.

• “Vote NO because California fell into the ocean when they tried this”
• “Vote NO because old people will die if they do not have proper power” (Sponsored by AARP)”
• “Vote NO because the cost of power will skyrocket and you will all go broke as energy costs rise”
• “Vote NO because,” well, the real reason is, because the end of a monopoly also ends the control or energy and the flow of money to the current power industries.

The projection is that costs will rise – Of course they will if the energy company’s loose business and try to maintain their current corporate structure and company size. But the inverse reality is, that as their market share shrinks, they can and should downsize to respond to that reality. And, of course, their market share will shrink.

Let’s look at this from a larger perspective:

The Buggy Whip Industry no longer exists. Why? Because the horse drawn carriage is no longer our means of transportation. We now drive cars. We could go back to buggies, and that would save the Buggy Whip industry, but change and progress does have its casualties.

Let’s get this straight. The energy industries are changing. We are discovering new energy sources everyday and the time will come when there will be no more telephone poles. Well, in fact the cell phone is leading the way to there being no more phone lines. That is the consequential results of progress.

The same will be true of our sources of energy. While solar power is in its infancy, it, as an example of resources yet to come, is leading the way toward a sustainable source of power owned by each homeowner, without connections to the central power company distribution goliaths. Times are changing.

It is not far fetched to presume that our future will have smaller and more efficient means of power and the entire electrical grid, as we now know it, will be gone.

What? No more black outs? No more outages? No more Brown outs?

In a free market world, progress rewards the inventive, but those who cling to buggy whips will lose their power and/or their franchise of it.

Yep! No more buggy whips!