&gt;Power companies are responsible for their own infrastructure.<p>How exactly do you build infrastructure without government powers such as eminent domain, or without inserting easements for utility access?<p>A libertarian landowner could simply refuse to allow utility lines to cross their property and thus cutoff others from access, or require expensive routing around their property. Roads, power&#x2F;sewer&#x2F;water&#x2F;gas lines, phone&#x2F;cable&#x2F;data - all would be at the whim of landowners large and small as to whether it would even exist.<p>There is no realistic way for a private company to negotiate access between them and every single landowner they&#x27;d need to in order to build infrastructure that serves a sizeable population. Hence government &quot;coercion&quot; is required.