“People say, ‘Why not have another election? It’s no big deal,'” said John Spitzer, a board member of PLAN-Boulder County and treasurer of the Empower Boulder group. “It actually is a very big deal. It’s at least two more elections and probably many more in the future. The more this goes on, the more it has the effect of just killing municipalization entirely.”
Empower Boulder’s letter outlines the benefits of municipalization, saying, according to a city analysis, that it would provide much cleaner energy at similar or lower rates than Xcel, and the charter amendment “puts these potential benefits at risk.”
Common sense says these potential benefits are illusionary. Of course if municipalization is part of your green energy religion then it’s another matter alltogether.
