'I Hate it Here' Trends on Twitter in Texas After Greg Abbott Lifts Mask Mandate

So called "deregulation".. or as it translates to in reality as a lack of accountability in abuse of a captive consumer base by monopolistic operators can get really bad.

Example, in the aftermath of California's out right idiotic "deregulation experiment"...

Way back when... I think its around 12-15 years ago in SoCal when i owned/operated a catering/restaurant business. We moved in to, or rather expanded in to a new place to add a restaurant to a growing catering business. Utilities got transferred over first of the month following signing of the lease, we spent the next two or so upgrading and fixing the facilities with next to 0 actual electricity use.(no ice machines, ovens etc... like 0 actual electricity use.)

Utility company tried to charge us the supposed "average" of the precious occupants use of $1200 and $1400 a month for those months in utilities. They didn't ask us if we wanted "averaged billing"... nothing... I called them when we got the first bill the actual numbers from the photos we had of the meter came to around $45 for the first month, and $55 for the 2nd during renovations. They tried to charge, but luckily we did not have to pay.

I still have no idea how, or where they got the original billing numbers from... i mean seriously... even during our worst use months we got up to maybe $450.(norm was around $270-350) Their excuse "we charge on the average based on every other billed months use"... the spot had been empty for like 4 months from when the previous people moved out.

The "funny" thing about it was that talking to our landlord, and the person in the spot previously the utilities were full of shit in their "averaged" figures. The previous occupants bills were around the same as ours. Well maybe a bit higher as they had shitty 20 odd year old cooled display cabinets and ice machines we did not use, or need.

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