[JohnBovenmyer]

>I don’t know what they can do about that robbery.

• Leave the (variably (free market) priced, now scarce and thus expensive, power off.
• Relocate temporarily to someplace cheaper. Like Cancun.
• Accept that your bet on electricity pricing lost and pay the bill. Standard options of loans and bankruptcy remain.

  In a free market price is a message. Shooting its messenger is a liberal move. If it's not a free market, eg. the government is taxing or charging Peter to subsidize Paul, everyone in group Peter should protest through all appropriate channels.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Well, well. According to this and this the price spike wasn't the result of a free market, but rather a Biden's DOE mandate. The problem could have been prevented by fully using Texas's non-green power generation capacity, albeit without much left over. Abbott requested just that. Trump almost certainly would have said yes. Team Green's response left Texan's out in the cold and seeing Green, as in $$$, as any power over their limits for federally mandated to be at 6000% over market pricing.

So furious Texans need to adjust targeting. I'm not saying there aren't problems in the GOP there, but this was caused by the new team of Feds even more than by the weather. Redirect volleys of emails, phone calls, etc. according. Stop shooting Cruz and start shooting via him as your representative. Heck, even Cornyn should be a useful conduit on this. Encourage your AG to investigate whether any legal recourse is available, criminally or civilly, for the damages caused. Maybe the size of the mandated price hike qualifies as some kind of malicious exception to the Feds' "I'm just doing my routine duty defense." There probably isn't, but he may be able to make enough noise to correct the narrative.