It might, for example, decide that the best way to avoid heavy costs is to build out a municipal power infrastructure one neighborhood at a time, using the revenue from the early customers to finance more construction. It could undertake extensive studies of the city's future energy needs, and of conservation and environmental strategies, and develop an affordable long-term energy development plan. And none of this would be done in secret, since the MUD would be subject to the city's sunshine laws. The lies and propaganda will be flooding the mail, the newspaper pages, and the airwaves before long. And every activist group should make it clear that any candidate for supervisor who doesn't support the measure will be marked for political extinction.
Petitions are in the streets today.
Sign up and vote for the measure, and San Francisco's energy future will be in the hands of San Franciscans, for a change.