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All Roads Lead to Toll Roads: Robert Poole on America's Highways

Economics Detective Radio

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Is It a Politicized System?

In traditional utilities in the U.S., at least, and probably true in Canada, we have three different models. We have investor-owned companies that have a long-term franchise, but they're not there forever. We have government utilities, which are owned and operated by the government. And we have rural utility co-ops. There are thousands of those in the United States telephone co-ops and electric co-ops that the governing boards are made up of customers.

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