Oh, Karen.Karen Knox, a special education teacher in Bedford, was among them. She lost power during the crisis but still owes some $7,000 to Griddy, an electricity provider located in Houston.
But the arrangement produced eye-popping costs for some during the storm — topping $17,000 for a man Dallas television station WFAA spoke to —
To recap, utility companies didn't bother winterizing their facilities after being ordered to a decade ago, causing pipes delivering natural gas to freeze and said facilities to shut down. But it's my fault somehow."We cannot allow someone to exploit a market when they were the ones responsible for the dire consequences in the first place,” said state Rep. Brooks Landgraf, R-Odessa.
Governor's making vague statements about doing something, but he's a RINO ass who might as well be a Dem.Kaiba White, an energy policy specialist with consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said the costs would be passed on to customers one way or another.
“If they [the electric provider] don’t have a mechanism that allows them to do that in the immediate — like on the next bill or the next several billth — it’ll end up getting rolled into the overall cost of service,” she said. “It’s just a matter of whether it’s going to get passed on in an immediate way, in a shocking way … or spread out over time.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/22 ... ric-billth/
Want some tendies along with your bill? 
