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Hawaii

msongs

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3. HECO needs to be run by the state for the benefit of the people not shareholders...

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Sun Jun 14, 2015, 05:48 PM

Jun 2015

back when fuel oil was the only game in town a centralized system made at least some sense. now that every building on Oahu can have solar and be a power generator, supplemented by wind and some fuel oil for night time, a for profit at any expense of the citizens is no longer the most judicial option

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This is what is wrong [View all] salimbag Jun 2015 OP

Coop or municipally run. Either way, that's the way utilities should operate. Cleita Jun 2015 #1

That's the way things used to be salimbag Jun 2015 #2

HECO needs to be run by the state for the benefit of the people not shareholders... msongs Jun 2015 #3

Hawaii can provide it's own energy salimbag Jun 2015 #4