Prices would have risen had the utility remained public, no doubt, but not nearly as much as they did under private (profiteering) ownership.

Is anyone really naive enough to believe corporations scheme and bribe and lobby to take over public services for no motive other than disinterested civic duty?

JotSC, I am very glad to learn that there are still a few conservatives intelligent and independent enough to perceive actual fact, and not make all their judgements and decisions based upon ideology.

The greedheads who try to sell us the idea that government=incompetancy and private-enterprise=efficiency, always and without exception, are the very ones who, upon taking public office, do everything in their power to demonstrate how poorly government can serve the citizenry.