I'm seriously disappointed in HN when the only responses to consumers getting $16K power bills are them getting blamed or instructed on how to live without electricity.
Consumers or amateur market speculators?
His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
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Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#12Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support government intervention as much as any bleeding heart liberal. The only differences are who they want to protect, where their political bread is buttered. What is different between an energy bill and a bill from a hospital?
At some point it's almost like we ought to treat Republican governments like a foreign adversary - just like putting sanctions on Russia is not ideal because ordinary non murdering Russians get hurt, it's not as if we can condemn regular Texans to freeze because of lowlives like Abbott and Cruz. But we have to do something about it, at some point the amount of damage they are doing to the republic has to be confronted.
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#13I'm seriously disappointed in HN when the only responses to consumers getting $16K power bills are them getting blamed or instructed on how to live without electricity.
How do you deal with a child that only wants rewards with no responsibility?
Now pretend that child belongs to another set of parents that live far away, and the parents happen to have the same mindset as the child.
What do you do?
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#14He'll know better next time.
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#15Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support government intervention as much as any bleeding heart liberal. The only differences are who they want to protect, where their political bread is buttered. What is different between an energy bill and a bill from a hospital? At some point it's al…
Sanctioning political opponents kind of sounds like a dictatorship to me.
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#16I’d like to have a sideways arrow, for ‘get this garbage out’ so that there is a difference between voting ‘I don’t like this’ and I want this comment killed. HN is my favourite place to come and read opinions, because while I don’t agree with every opinion, They are better expressed here than on most forums, more likely to be sincere and rarely pure trolling. Unless I’m not picking up on something, there are comments here getting killed for being unpopular, it would be better if that only happened for crappy behaviour. I think the dead comments are often some of my favourite to read. On my laptop I can change the css to read the dead, but on phone my I’m squinting at the grey on grey.
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#17I'm seriously disappointed in HN when the only responses to consumers getting $16K power bills are them getting blamed or instructed on how to live without electricity.
What would be your preferred reaction? That we all agree Texas taxpayers should foot the bill for their money pinching peers?
If you take on risk your should fully assume that risk. The same way that if your insure your house for half its price to save on monthly payments you don't go around expecting the government to bail you out.
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#18Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support government intervention as much as any bleeding heart liberal. The only differences are who they want to protect, where their political bread is buttered. What is different between an energy bill and a bill from a hospital? At some point it's al…
Sanctioning political opponents kind of sounds like a dictatorship to me.
Quite frankly I do not think people like Majorie Greene or Steve King being stripped of committee assignments sounds at all like a dictatorship. If anything I think that sentiment is really insulting to opposition leaders in actual dictatorships, who are thrown in jail if not executed. I think the casualness in which that word is bandied about speaks volumes about how people in the West take their free democracies for granted and lack understanding of how most of the rest of the world operates.
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#19Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support government intervention as much as any bleeding heart liberal. The only differences are who they want to protect, where their political bread is buttered. What is different between an energy bill and a bill from a hospital? At some point it's al…
It's their company, they can do whatever they want to their customers.
~Free Market Democrats regarding Big Tech
Re: His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
#20He'll know better next time.
Does he have an option to pay a safer, fixed rate? Are you 100 percent sure that is available?