roger hao wrote:Omar is not reading correctly -
Texans pay way more for electricity than folks who get their power from regular old govt utilities. At least that's what that radical leftist publication, the Wall Street Journal says.
Texas rate 2019 average $11.67
Wow. I guess you not only suck at math, you apparently suck at English too.
I understand it's hard to stop fapping to Atlas Shrugged long enough to actually check the link, but, and this is not me, this is a direct quote from the very first paragraph of the Wall Street Journal's analysis:
Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents who are served by traditional utilities, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found.
Since you apparently have trouble with words, that "its" refers to Texas. They (the Wall Street Journal), compared Texas residents getting power from privatized sources to other Texas residents getting power from traditional utilities. So even within Texas, traditional utilities have been cheaper.
But hey, you Googled "States with the highest rates", so it must be true..
But lets add research to the list of stuff you suck at. I glanced at your random list, the one with no link an no citations, so, you know, super convincing.
Just ignoring the fact that you apparently are confused by the concept of "average", California jumped out at me, probably because that's where I'm from. Yeah. Expensive electricity. You know what else is true about California electricity? It's also deregulated and mostly privatized. We get our power mainly from PG&E, a publicly traded company that has to answer to stockholders. Go figure?
That made me curious, so l looked it up.
Hawaii
28.84
Connecticut - deregulated
21.41
Rhode Island
23.58
Vermont
19.68
Alaska
22.53
New Hampshire - deregulated
19.20
California - dereglated
22.26
New York - deregulated
18.91
Massachusetts - deregulated
22.10
Michigan - deregulated
16.43
So that's 6 out of 10 of the most expensive states all have deregulated electricity markets.
Explain to me again how this list was supposed to demonstrate that old fashioned electricity utilities are more expensive?
I may be "talking through my hat", but you sire, to borrow one if my favorite Shaanxi colloquialisms, are about as useful as a glass hammer.