Colin Cummins

Review of IPL

I don't understand how in a largely Republican sta...

I don't understand how in a largely Republican state with strong free-market values we still have to deal with a local monopoly like IPL. As consumers, we have no market leverage in demanding better service and lower prices from IPL. For example, If I was having a really bad time with AT&T customer service, my calls kept dropped and the bill was just creeping up arbitrarily - I'd be able to go to Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Google Fi etc, collect offers and decide on a better, lower priced option. That is how free markets are supposed to work. With IPL, I have to continually be kicked and kicked and kicked, and my only options to stop the kicking is to A. turn the electricity completely off in my home or B. Switch to solar and install a wind turbine on the deck of my condo downtown? It's absurd. This is robber baron capitalism at it's finest. If I didn't know better I'd think I was doing business with the Oligarchs at Gazprom.