[DIRTYSECRET]

They can’t run their own company. Co-ops don’t work.

[cuban leaf]

They make me think of the Twentieth Century Motor Company in Atlas Shrugged.

[Mogger]

Co-ops don’t work.

Some co-ops work.

Cabot Creamery and Vermont Electric Co-op, in Vermont.

They were around before the takeover of Vermont by leftists from NY, CT, etc.

But overall, you are right.