Electric companies want it.
Consumers get long term lower price.

So, the only answer is that they are in a cult subservient to an orange menace who is subservient to Prince bonesaw and Putin who both need fossil fuel demand to remain high

That’s about 50,000, and, yes, the remaining 75,000 or so residents remaining are widely scattered.

... looking like an old liberal arts college or Frankenstein's medical institute.

I’ve visited the old prison (featured in The Shawshank Redemption), and from the upper levels, you can see the yard of the new prison through the windows. Photography of prisoners is strictly prohibited.

... psych inmates hitch hiking on a state road and talked him into going to Fallsview, then a state facility in Cuyahoga Falls.

... they literally give it away for free at night.

Just think, if Texas would join the national grid, electricity rates would go down for millions. Haven't they noticed all the deserted strip-mines in the counties not too far south of them? How much unproductive farms stripped of their topsoil by shysters there is???

How many farms around them have been left fallow, paying very little tax into the local infrastructure?

A little stupidity and lack of forsight can go a long damn way.

Is fracking something they want for Ohio? Fossil fuels are on their way out. Do they really continued fracking in Ohio, even if it's a couple of counties away?



https://www.yourohionews.com/

The Muskingum Watershed includes parts or the entirety of 27 counties. The southeast portion of the watershed (Carroll, Harrison, Belmont, Noble and Guernsey) have been significantly impacted by oil and gas development. Other counties (Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Richland, Wayne, Ashland, Muskingum, Morgan, Columbiana and Washington) have all seen activities associated with oil and gas development (compressor stations, injection wells and pipelines).

... to believe that intense therapy could ameliorate the perverse and malicious Republican inclinations to destroy anything and everything that actually helps people, or anything and everything that helps to repair the damage to the only planet we'll ever have done by soulless corporations, all to satisfy the gaping maw of greed personified by stockholders who demand ever-increasing dividends, regardless of the consequences.
Sadly, past experience tells us that you cannot rehabilitate a psychopath.