[ricardobayes]

Maybe Americans or Libertarians don't want that, but average people do want that, Hungary's govt has been doing that for years and they have supermajority (70+%) in a free election. Subsidizing utilities is a populist way to get re-elected, but of course it's distorting the market and making everyone else look stupid. Now in France Macron and Le Pen are looking to do the same as Hungary, handing out meal vouchers and subsidizing utilities. They are polling the voters and that's what the voters want. Almost no one in Hungary is investing into renewables, since energy prices are frozen to 2017 levels (around a quarter of what it should be on the free market).