The economically ignorant socialist ideologues who run the Maryland state government did the dumbest thing imaginable to the electric utility industry in 2000: They imposed price controls for six years, at 1996 prices, and called it “deregulation.” Naturally, no new competition emerged precisely because of this boneheaded law. When the price controls ended and prices shot up, our Comrades in Annapolis declared “deregulation” a failure and began offering even dumber “solutions” to the problems they created.
The latest brain flatulence to emerge from the banks of the Chesapeake is to designate chickensh** (euphemistically called
“chicken litter”) as a “renewable energy source” and to require the state-created and sanctioned electric power monopoly (BGE) to purchase it as a fuel source.
And what a remarkable coincidence that the two state senators who sponsored this legislation — Thomas Middleton and Lowell Stoltfus — raise chickens on the eastern shore of Maryland, home of Frank Purdue.
The commies in the Baltimore city government are dumber yet: They’re promoting a government-run monopoly electricity supplier. These are the same people whose government-run school monopoly is arguably the worst in the entire United States.
