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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Ya, okay, so overhead was the wrong word. The other word i used, infrastructure, would be more accurate. We pay for the actual cost of building and maintaining their transmission lines, which you'll never convince me is right. It would be like paying a trucker for the purchase cost of his truck and trailer so he can deliver freight to me, and still charging for delivering the freight too boot. If you think that's a fair system you can have it. By the way, I've got an idea for a new service you might like ... but you have to give me the money to start the company first.
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The trucker still does that.. He just rolls the cost of his truck into the overall cost to ship. The only difference is the power company is transparent in listing that cost/fee on your bill.