Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors
ramble81@lemmy.zip 7 hours agoMan, 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.
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
I don’t even think everyone had the option of not getting a variable pricing, but even if they all did have the choice, no one would assume the companies would charge over a thousand times the going rate of electricity. How you could defend that is just astonishing. Yes it’s their fault for not realizing the should choose the option that gives a flat rate, and not try to save some money using more electricity when prices are lower, as clearly the industry would fail and charge them a year’s salary for a week’s electricity.
It’s their fault, for not realizing they were going to be gouged to a ruinous extent, after those companies failed in their duty, and that their politicians would abandon them, and have abandoned them already?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
That’s where you’re wrong. The wholesale pricing is very much optional with a few providers, some don’t even offer it. It is not something you’re forced in to, nor is it the norm. It’s basically a plan you have to go looking for an choose.