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What they'll do is they'll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.
Possibly.
then buy out the competition and have monopoly paid by people its going to extort
That's effectively why Microsoft's plan to restart Three Mile Island is stalled out. They want it to be paid by taxpayer dollars despite (as far as I know) having no plans to provide the generated electricity to taxpayers.
That's roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed...