'I had to pay $500 a day': freeze shows Texans true cost of unregulated power

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I just had to sit there and pay the $400, $500 a day to run the electricity,” he said.

As millions of Texans went without power and potable water last week, many simultaneously worried, helpless, about the catastrophically high energy prices they were suddenly being charged and couldn’t afford. While frigid conditions knocked power offline and freezing Texans tried to heat their homes, demand for energy far outstripped supply, causing wholesale energy prices to soar.

From a recent widow who let her home temperature drop to 43F, trying to preserve power, to an army veteran who is spending his life’s savings paying off his utility, the state’s residents are now bearing the brunt of a crisis within a crisis, fielding thousands of dollars worth of energy bills overnight.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i...ns-true-cost-of-unregulated-power/ar-BB1dY6i8
 
Unfettered, under-regulated free enterprise is a proven failure supported by undereducated working class white people who'd rather vote against their own economic best interests
if it gets them permission to be racist scumbags by the pachy stringpullers.
 
I just had to sit there and pay the $400, $500 a day to run the electricity,” he said.

As millions of Texans went without power and potable water last week, many simultaneously worried, helpless, about the catastrophically high energy prices they were suddenly being charged and couldn’t afford. While frigid conditions knocked power offline and freezing Texans tried to heat their homes, demand for energy far outstripped supply, causing wholesale energy prices to soar.

From a recent widow who let her home temperature drop to 43F, trying to preserve power, to an army veteran who is spending his life’s savings paying off his utility, the state’s residents are now bearing the brunt of a crisis within a crisis, fielding thousands of dollars worth of energy bills overnight.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i...ns-true-cost-of-unregulated-power/ar-BB1dY6i8

Republican politicians in Texas are being very generous with your tax dollars -- they are proposing using Federal relief money to pay these price gouging companies the money they are demanding.
 
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