Missouri Voters Say Competition Keeps Rates Lower
76% say their legislators should fight to decrease costs, not raise them
A poll of Missouri voters shows they overwhelmingly support competition as a way to keep electricity rates low and oppose legislation that would increase incumbent utility control over the state’s electric power grid.
The poll found that a supermajority of voters agree that legislation being considered by the Missouri legislature granting incumbent utilities more rights to own and operate electric transmission lines will cost consumers.
The legislation, which failed to pass the legislature in 2023, would limit competition on who can build transmission lines - the large powerlines that carry electricity from the power generating facilities to your local utility provider – and automatically grant current incumbent electric utilities the right to build any new transmission lines in their service area, instead of allowing a competitive bidding process to take place.
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What Missouri Voters Think About Right of First Refusal Utility Legislation
Missouri voters agree ROFR will increase the power of incumbent utilities and want their legislators to act in the interests of citizens.
Missouri voters support competition for power line construction because it leads to lower costs for everyone. Consumers suffer when legislators give special rights to favored utilities.
Anti-competitive proposals favoring utility companies fly in the face of the principles that made America great, like competition, free markets and freedom.
Voters want their legislators to put their interests first, ahead of power companies and their lobbyists. We should be spending it on schools and roads instead.
Missouri voters agree legislators should fight to decrease electric rates and oppose proposals that would raise them by giving anti-competitive rights to favored utilities.