"Leon" wrote in
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I am sure there is some law against it but why couldn't a whole
neighborhood be a single customer/customer and each home owner pay for
his usage of that total billed to the neighborhood.


It is the notion of municipal retail utility distribution. Where the city
manages the 'natural monopoly' portion of electric and/or gas distribution.

I've lived in a town with such a system. It was just fine, and less
expensive than one would expect. They now are installing some of the
fastest residential and business broadband services in the country, at
aggressively low prices, after waiting for the 'big boys' to get off their
backsides for years. That REALLY gets the lobbyists and propagandists
going.

As to whether there are laws against it, it differs in every area. However,
laws can be changed.

Patriarch,
closet populist