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Hell no.
My state reps office told me we shouldn't join the national grid because... " If another area has an emergency we'd have to share our power."
He basically wigged out when I said that's fine, THAT'S THE POINT.
Edit for context this is in TX we basically have our own shitty grid for anyone not aware people froze to death in modern society when our grid failed...
They're not actually worried about sharing power, they don't want to be subject to additional federal regulation.
In this case, the issue is business interest in politics, not our weird toxic individualism.
Well and the "solution" touted by other offices was the setup a low interest loan getup for gas and oil to setup more power plants. You know, but not renewables.
The hand out is blatantly obvious.
If you're talking extra plants for redundancy when power fluctuates, there's really now way to do that with renewables. Maybe giant battery stations, but that's about it.