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|1.11.05 @ 3:21PM|#
The electric utility's "green power" program is a bad example. A utility is a business, and they were marketting a product. Nothing wrong with that.
Their consultants seem to be doing a crappy job, but that doesn't make advertising their products "propaganda," any more than any other company trying to sign up customers.
|1.11.05 @ 3:26PM|#
They're a business in the same sense that a public school is a business.
|1.11.05 @ 3:37PM|#
The electric utility's "green power" program is a bad example. A utility is a business, and they were marketting a product. Nothing wrong with that.
joe, what in God's name are you smoking and tell me what kind of business has its board appointed by the mayor and its "marketing" funded by taxpayers?
|1.11.05 @ 3:53PM|#
I'm not getting into whether the "public utility" model is a good idea or not, just pointing out that it functions as a business, including trying to convince customers to sign up for its service.
DigSafe advertises, too.
|1.11.05 @ 4:59PM|#
joe,
It's not the marketing that's the problem, it's the fact that the marketing dollars came from my pocket. Not the part of my pocket that pays for utilities, but the part that pays taxes. Big difference.
Warren|1.11.05 @ 7:14PM|#
Forget it Mo, in joe's world, the state knows better than you how to spend your money.
Great article Tim. I hope more than just Reason readers come to know and care.
|1.12.05 @ 4:18AM|#
Well at least you haven't yet sunk to the level of the UK.