"Why not cut people’s electric in the winter because they said “nigger”? It’s a private company that delivers the utility." This is what democrats will do if we ever get a federal CBDC or a "Social Credit System." The utilities are state and sometimes city regulated, it's much more difficult to get laws passed in order to shut off heat in the winter for someone who said nigger. Although I could see local politicians like Newsom, Mamdani, and Brandon Johnson trying. Additionally, a lot of politicians are stock/bond holders of energy companies and want the company to maximize supply to its customers in order to maximize shareholder returns. Which is why the morons trying to limit or otherwise restrict politicians from trading stocks are making a grave mistake by not thinking of the second and third order of consequences. If you think people like Nancy Pelosi are insufferable now, wait until they no longer have to worry about the profit motive of being a stockholder of a company like NRG or Eversource in their "quiver of arrows." https://thehill.com/homenews/house/517277-pelosi-house-will-use-every-arrow-in-our-quiver-to-stop-supreme-court-nominee/