Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Rocky Comfort is an unincorporated community in northeastern McDonald County, Missouri, United States, on Route 76. It is very near the point where McDonald, Newton, and Barry Counties meet. Several homes and a post office are located here. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is mentioned in Dennis Murphy's poem of 1941, The Doomed Race.