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That's not how any of this works.
Fuck them and fuck anyone who thinks this makes sense. Paying for energy you don't use because 'boo-hoo company profits' is probably the most blatant late stage capitalism bullshit I've seen all month, and probably up there with a handful for the year.
I'm struggling to understand why utility companies can't just put up energy prices? Why chase individual customers for this difference in power saving?
The rates are limited by the state...
Wow, really? Louisiana has some of the cheapest electricity in the US and the world. No wonder this problem exists when the Government forces unprofitable pricing without socialising the utility
Got a source?
"Lower profits for the utilities" is a nonsensical phrase.
i'm happy to pay for some things i don't directly benefit from: public school, school meals, abortions, etc. but if someone thinks i'm going to pay for a product i never received, for no other reason than their for-profit 'line always go up' corporate bottom lines, then they can go fuck themselves
Absolutely shameless.
Power companies need the welfare now?
Capitalism is the most efficient economic system 😎👌
Woke liberal transgender marxists who hate America try to destroy Entergy Louisiana and put hapless shareholders into the poorhouse!
Won't somebody help the poor poor shareholders crying in their yachts?
That's insane that they have so much power to begin with
They literally MAKE power
Tell me it's an Onion article.
See this is where we should apply tar and feathers. If your argument literally nis that you want to earn more money, so you want to just force people to pay you, you're just a mob boss wannabe. Tar and feathers, publicly.