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In the Market for "Home Heating" Consumers Typically Have Several

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In the market for "home heating" consumers typically have several options (e.g., electricity, heating fuel, natural gas, propane, etc.), yet we often think of firms in this industry as behaving like monopolists. Discuss the context in which your electricity provider is a monopolist. Is this characterization universally applicable? Explain your answer.


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