Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors
ramble81@lemmy.zip 9 hours agoFrankly that’s the customers fault. It’s like taking out an ARM based mortgage. You’re gambling that the rates will stay low and then bitch if they spike. The people that were affected opted in to a variable rate plan to take advantage of lower commercial prices, then started botching when it spiked. Coupled with automatic withdrawal meant they thought “it would never happen to me!”
hector@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Victim blaming. Deregulation of energy always leads to less service for more money, from Enron to now. Especially in texas.
I can’t imagine defending a group that through their own greed failed to do their job and responded by overcharging a thousand times their victims. Talk about losing any credibility.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
No, it’s called making an informed choice. Down in South Texas that variable rating wasn’t even an option because our energy provider doesn’t do that. So what happened? Absolutely nothing. The provider ate most of it.
Where that happened is in Dallas, where there are at least 4 separate utility providers that you can shop around for. And of those 4 they have different plans including fixed rate plans. I.e. plans where your bill wouldn’t have shot through the roof.
So it very much was a customer issue, and didn’t happen to everyone. No one was forced to chose those plans.
hector@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
No one forced you to defend the rich gouging working people, charging them up to a year’s salary for 10 dollars of electricity. To defend that, it’s incredible, typical victim blaming, borne from Fox News and their ilk campaigning against the poor, breeding outright contempt and hate for them, encouraging people to celebrate them getting hurt.
Because they are cheating them, and bullies always accuse their victims to justify abusing them. You side with the bullies, stealing tens of thousands of dollars when their wallet opened up to pay for 10 dollars worth of product, or less.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Man, someone seriously pissed in your Cheerios. I’m not defending them at all. My point since the beginning has always been that if you are trying to get away with gambling on the system. At some point you will lose. That is 100% on you. Doesn’t matter if it’s betting, ARMs, variable rate electricity, whatever.