Texas Power Grid Deregulation Cost Texans $28 Billion Over Two Decades
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With free markets, and self regulation, the only winners are the filthy rich GOP mega donors.
Yakuda
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If people want to be free from govt oversight why do you care how much it cost them? Do you have to pay their bills?
Yakuda
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Prove it.
Geeko Sportivo
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Texas Free-markets are starting to get too expensive. Our electricity rates are the highest in the Nation!
And ever since Texas did away with The Texas State Board of Governors, TEXAS Auto and Home Insurance prices are the highest in the nation, and have been ever since.
A Texas State 4 year degree's sticker price is now over 95K and is rising in tuition costs at an amazing 4.1% every year.
TEXAS IS GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE THAN IT NEEDS TO BE!
TIME FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO GET BACK IN CHARGE HERE!
The JPP forum idiot is baaack.
evince
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The Truth: The USA average is 10.54 cents/KHR, the Texas average is 8.6.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
Still lower than any blue state.
Geeko Sportivo
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What Texas does is lure people into thinking the variable rate is the best choice- because it has a low starting rate- THEN STICK IT TO THEM DURING THE EXTREME USE MONTHS.
Fixed rates are much higher than what was mentioned in this thread.
My brother lives in San Antonio and we just talked about this last night:
https://www.cpsenergy.com/content/dam/corporate/en/Documents/Rate_ResidentialElectric.pdf
Geeko Sportivo
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Do your own research by going to the website that compares the rates for those who are about to sign up for Electricity Contracts in Texas, and you won't see any fixed rates cheaper than the American Average.
These rates you speak of are not guaranteed rates- Those are the variable starting rates you are referring to, and they are not guaranteed and can fluctuate as up to 1,000% higher as what is quoted from month-to-month- BUT YET NEVER LOWER!
I changed that post....I had gone to an inferior site. Look, a lot of places in Texas dont offer flex rates, I am not in favor of them being offered but if they are it is up to the buyer to know what they are buying. That is the up front deal with flex rates, you never know how you are going to turn out, if you sign up for one you are gambling. If you gamble and lose I dont have any sympathy for you.
As an aside: My brother tells me that CPS is baiming the grid operator for the power outages (my brother did a 7 hour and a 10 hour) even as their generation capacity has been shrinking as the population rises...they canceled a NUKE plant and took out I think he said two coal plants.
T. A. Gardner
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This is what happened in California back in the early 2000's. Exact same thing, only California went further. Producers there were not allowed to sell retail, only to wholesale middlemen. The result was the same too, only it went on for months, then years. It's how ENRON got filthy rich before tanking from internal corruption.
PoliTalker
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Hello Cinnabar,
Republican opposition to sensible government is merely a ruse to cover up to subservience to the powerful.
Because it wouldn't play well in the sound byte media to simply say they are covering for billionaires.
Republican opposition to sensible government is merely a ruse to cover up to subservience to the powerful.
Because it wouldn't play well in the sound byte media to simply say they are covering for billionaires.