On behalf of all the thousands of consumers of publicly owned, government regulated, monopolistic utility companies from Texas to Oklahoma and Missouri to Maine who lost power over the last week during the ice storm and found their service lacking, I would like to open up the bidding process to competitive companies that will fill the needs of their customers 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
The free market can surely do better than some of the horror stories that have been circulating in the media.
