4 September 2003 Edition

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Your money or your lights

A Chairde,

What have London 28/8/03, New York 17/8/03 and San Francisco 20/12/00 got in common? OK, they suffered severe power cuts but that's not all.

Each of these cities privatised their electricity supply, supposedly in the interests of "competition and efficiency". Result: private monopolies, workers fired, prices raised and blackouts. Oh, and more donations to right-wing parties from power companies.

This "your money or your lights" racket should be remembered when the dim bulbs in Leinster House with the privatisation fetish try to sell off our ESB.

Seán Marlow
Dublin 11


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