It isn’t just gasoline. My contract with one of the deregulated local electricity carriers came up for renewal in May. The rate went from 14 to 20 cents a kwa. When I called to ask why so much, the girl said everything was going up and they deserved a raise too. I promise she said this.
I checked a couple other carriers and they were more! Anyway my first bill came, which coincides with full blast summer heat and the bill went from 320 to 610. Inflation is here folks.
Deregulation in Texas has so far been a very bad joke. All it did was add a middleman layer. Idiocy.
The companies that came in after deregulation aren’t building plants or anything. They are just using marketing schemes to get people to jump around. It’s a huge failure for the consumer. It’s like when all the little internet companies popped up reselling ATT lines. Big whoop. And they are dead now anyway.
Perry ought to be real proud.