I heard they just literally rigged the election AFTER the fact the establishment parties suffered a hard loss, the demanded a re-count and suddenly "oh look, tons of opposition votes suddenly went missing, too bad!"  Yah, the so-called "democracy" they are trying to enforce around the world today.

German Republic is a police state.

I don't get the point here, what are you saying?

This has nothing to do with the topic, but I suppose that depends what laws police choose to enforce. I would like police to do their best when it comes to bringing justice to murderers, rapists, thieves/robbers, drug dealers, gangs and thugs, for example. If you want a civilized society, and do not want to be a victim of violent crime, you NEED to crack down on bad people.

However, if you have police that are going after political dissent instead, or "hate speech" or law-abiding gun owners, but are lax on hardened criminals who hard people well THAT is technically a police state. Most American cities today would fall under that definition today. Maybe vote differently next time. :/

Americans are completely retarded now.

Courts uphold every law and Americans say that courts protect freedom.

The US is a police state, everything is illegal, and Americans scream that the police don't enforce the law enough.

You need natural resources/commodities to produce and store energy. Energy, in turn, is used to conduct and transmit electricity via the power grid. The less natural resource extraction, the more strain on supply and demand thus higher energy prices. Economics 101.

Ahh so they just take on the risk in a market dip or raise?

It doesn’t pass through the brokers. Generators put it into the market “pool”. Consumers demand energy from the pool. Brokers/retailers/utility companies facilitate the contractual arrangements so that consumers don’t face the market spot price directly

I'm doing research on the U.S. Energy market.

I'm working on a project that is exploring the U.S. Energy market from Upstream to the Consumer with a particular focus on deregulated markets. I have found a healthy bit of info on both the generation side, but lack insight into how energy enters the "market" then passes through brokers and finally to the end user. I was hoping this sub would be able to fill in some of the gaps. Any additional reading or blogs would be very welcome, and thanks for your assistance in advance.