Oklahoma Voters Say Competition Keeps Rates Lower
Candidates who Support Anti-Competitive Proposals Lose Voter Support
A poll of Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma legislature granting incumbent utilities more rights to own and operate electric transmission lines will cost consumers. While the legislation would allow other companies to build the lines, once completed, they would be forced to sell the lines to incumbent utilities. The legislation is similar to previously proposed Right of First Refusal legislation that would prevent any company but incumbent utilities from building electric transmission lines, rather than allowing a fully competitive process to build, own and operate the lines.
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What Oklahoma Voters Think About Anti-Competitive Utility Legislation
Voters are less likely to vote for a candidate who supports anti-competitive legislation giving more power to favored utilities.
Oklahoma 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 in Oklahoma 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.
Oklahoma voters agree legislators should fight to decrease electric rates and oppose proposals that would raise them by giving anti-competitive rights to favored utilities.
