Here’s the crux of the article for you.
In just two years, starting in 2022, residential electricity prices rose by 10%, while commercial prices increased by only 3%, and industrial electricity prices fell by 2%.
I pay 40c/kWh ^^’
The working class get the ‘get fucked’ tax on top of the costs. Companies get cheap power to make more money.
I’d like to see this graph with the EU power costs. I pay AVG € 0,27 per kWh now. Used to be € 0,20 before the attack on Ukraine began. That’s a 35% increase.
It’s what the maga working class voted for. That, and cruel deportations.
You think fucking over the working class is MAGA specific? Fucking us over is 100% bipartisan.
Scratch a both sideser, find Russian agitprop. Every goddamn time.
That’s cute when liberals try to co-opt phrases they don’t know how to use.
Are Russians in the room with you right now?
No but they are all over your comments, it’s like you work for RT or something. You sure do repeat basically all their points ad nauseum.
Liberals conflate everything that conflicts with the echo chamber as Russian
The AI data centers and crypto miners should be paying much higher rates than everyone else.
That’s not how capitalism works.
Privatize the profits, socialize the costs
Amen.
This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.
“All politics is local.”
In particular, its a failure of state utilities commissions, which have power over electric pricing.
Don’t know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well…
We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.
You’ll find that representative democracy is not all that representative.
come on Muricans, stop complaining and get a third job to pay for the slop machine until the bubble burst and the you have to pay for the bailout
stop complaining, remember “you are not there yet”
My city still owns the utilities and the council doubles as the utility board. They’ve been trying to privatize it, but it’s very contentious. Rightly so.
I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?
Big customers lock in deals for a fixed price of Y for X years.
Smaller customers can also get similar deals but retail customers (normal people) rarely can lock prices for more than 1 year. Most pay spot prices.
2024 and 2025 not included in their data.
Civilian bills increase while corporate discounts abound? Ya’ll need to fuck someone up with the 2A.
The idiots are convinced they’ll “be one of them someday”
Cue the “Fry, you arent rich!” Scene. Its very very real.
I have a friend that literally blames all problems in America on “The Poors” (his words) and when I try to tell him he IS the poors and is nowhere near rich, he doesn’t listen. Doesn’t believe workers should own the means of production because “when he owns HIS business, he wants to keep his money HE earned”
Brainwashed idiocy.
He rents, has a 20 year old car, is a bartender, and shops at Walmart exclusively. Also loves Grok.
America is doomed.
Always loved that Futurama scene, for the way it’s perfectly in line with Fry’s character and his amazingly broken reasoning facilities, while also just directly pointing out the bitter hatred of self, as a class, this kind of thinking always entails.
The lowest rate I can find here in Texas was triple what I was paying last year.
God don’t I know it. Looking at 500 dollar a month electric bills and I’m possibly disconnecting my heat pump.
Where are you? That’s what I pay a year, granted I live in a shoebox.
Under the boot of Georgia power.
Well I’m sure you’ll be heating your place with Venezula heavy sour by next week!
That’s crazy, up north I’m paying $130 monthly this winter and it’s actually cold here
$600 last month to run my heat pump. Can’t really disconnect it because it’s 30 degrees here rn. Awesome
just sayin’ this is still so incredibly cheap… 8c/kwh… australian electricity prices are 24-43c/kwh (obv usd vs aud but the aussie $ isn’t that weak)
It’s almost that time of the year when NY electric rates get hiked up and then get “frozen” to avoid further rate hikes while you conveniently get locked into that higher rate.
Someone has to pay the billionare’s bills
