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I live in NJ, USA. I thought I had missed a payment when my last electric bill came. Nope, just a huge rate hike. about the same amount of electricity as the prior year, double the bill.

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FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Were you recently told your bill is gonna go up again when they put in that massive data center in a year or so? We were told. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no option to say “fuck you, make them pay their bills.” Nope. PSE&g was like “brace for it bitch.” And that was ir.

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- AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I probably was. But I also just delete all their emails. They’re the only energy distributer in my area. Even if I contracted with someone else I’d have to pay their increased distribution rates.
  
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  - FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah same here. Just bullshit that they’re like “this is happening. Pay us more”
    
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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  PSE&G told some coworkers of mine their bill would go up by “as much as 20%” because they went up by 150%
  
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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  These taxes collected from tariffs have to go somewhere
  
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Damage@feddit.it ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Europeans: “first time?”

My electricity costs must have tripled since the Ukraine war, not like they were low before…

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- Tja@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Where are you located? In Germany it spiked but now I’m paying less than before the war (25 vs 27 cents).
  
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  - Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Italy.
    
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