Why would anyone vote no for this? Unless they have no idea what it was about. I am glad it passed. Those who voted no, need to review what this request is all about- it is NOT to spend your money but SAVE it.

There are a number of reasons why folks should have voted NO on this. First, history proves the cities that have aggregated are not saving much, and some are paying MORE. People should have their own choice to buy their products and services. They sold this really well comparing it to "buying bulk at Costco" and the like, but if that's true, then why have the cities that are already doing this providing average-awful rates to its residents? FACT: my brother lives in Batavia and they have their residents locked into an awful rate, over 8 cents/kwh to be specific. I called the City to ask if its possible to switch and they said no. Now that there's healthy competition in the free market, consumers can go to alternative suppliers such as North American Power, Ambit, IGS, etc and get a rate of just 5.99 on their own, and they didn't need a government mandate or a bulk purchase to make that happen. Free markets make that low rate happen.

The most recent suburb that I know of to aggregate their electricity to try and get their residents a better deal was Oak Park. With their collective buying power, they secured a decent rate... I think it was around 5.89 or something, but that's still very close to the 5.99 you can get today on your own from most of the alternate suppliers.

So if you ask me, passing this just makes Government bigger, reduces our personal freedom of choices, and now the monopoly that was once controlled by the utility is owned by the Government.

Why would anyone vote YES to this? Unless they have no idea what its about. Its awful that it passed. Those that voted yes need to review what this request is all about. In fact the cities that put this on the referendum need to find out what this is all about. It has nothing to do with saving citizens money. We can do that on our own. Three large energy corporations are swindling the public to hand over their right to choose. In turn, these three giant corporations are being handed hundreds of thousands of paying customers FOR FREE! That's right Scott. Your government just gave millions of dollars of revenue to giant corporations for free - the corporations didn't have to spend a single dime to win a customer. And what do you suppose the government officials get in return? Campaign donations? I own a small business. I don't have a right to choose my energy? Why? Because 10% of the voting public said yes. That's it. 10% of the people chose to take my rights away. Congratulations uneducated public. Thanks for giving more control to government who happens to be in bed with multi million dollar corporations. Wake up people.