"It's the ultimage scam!" - Crapgame, Kelly's Heroes 1970
Coming and going.
Getting charged for a product you are NOT using?
That is roughly akin to being FORCED at gun point to pay a “voluntary tax” or with the same government gun to be forced to buy “health insurance”...
IOW... I can easily see our political Master’s doing exactly this to help benefit their re-election campaign coffers.
That is not a good plan. It sounds like gouging, bordering on stealing b/c you have a monopoly on that service.
They could bring companies that use electricity and jobs to Louisiana.
LOL...we had the same thing here in California thirty years ago. The curbside recycling programs were so successful that the amount of waste going to the dump went way down and the garbage company had to jack rates way up.
I never could figure that out, though. Maybe their contract stipulated they were paid by the ton collected.
You have to pay more for appliances that don’t last as long to reduce electricity use, and then pay for the electricity you are not using. By the way, you also have to pay more in taxes to subsidize putting insulation in low-income housing as well as paying more for electricity to make up the shortfall of their electricity use.
More Insanity
Texas probably could use the capacity of a plant in Louisiana.
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They earn more when customers USE electricity. Waste is the wrong word, as if some outside entity (government) is assigning value to the customer’s power consumption.
That said, if they use less, they pay less. That’s why it’s sold by the Kilowatt-hour. Often with a service fee for maintaining the connection, but that’s usually pretty low.
If utilities were mandated by gov’mt to do certain things then the ratepayers need to pay.
For example, if they were forced to install wind turbines — which then failed (imagine my surprise) — then the ratepayers need to pay ‘cause it was not the utilities’ decision to install that crappola.
What steps preceded this mess? Don’t play the commie trash game and ignore history. Like ignoring the impacts of an open border: wage depression, welfare , murders, etc.
I’d expect this stupidity out of California, Washington state or NY.....not Louisiana. SMH
This is crazy, unless the utility was forced to prepay for something they now can’t get repaid.
Utilities are monopolies that have profits capped (I believe at 15%). If they had to spend, due to a mandate, they do have the right to recover that expense.
hmmm- will coupon-ers be charged for the money they save at grocery stores by major companies that are jealous thaT they didn’t pay full price?
My neighbor fell for a solar panel deal with “no cash up front” where panels are installed for free and you pay $130 a month to rent them. Guy proudly showed me his $0.00 electric bill for last month. I said, “So your electric was $130”. He looked confused, like he hadn’t thought about it that way. We recently had a power outage but he couldn’t use his solar panels for electricity because they are “one way”, power can only go out to the solar company, not into the house! I got a kick out of that one!
Next utility company’s will be sending us sox with hand grips for Christmas.
The “New Normal” in America. How far can this madness go?
Can McDonalds send me a bill for the hamburgers I no longer eat because they got used to the profits from the days when I ate them?
-PJ
"It's the ultimage scam!" - Crapgame, Kelly's Heroes 1970