electricity itself has never been cheaper.
Yet the final product price that you pay for, has never been more expensive.

Production creates the power rather

sounds like a good way to pay 3 times for a single service

It's a LOT cheaper under that system than it is in the part of the state I live in

which is 100% government fault since theyre the ones that are adding +70% of the price in taxes

where we've got one company, take it or everything in your fridge rots.

welcome to my country rye

That is literally the situation

plenty of competition tho

One of the things is, you can actually CHOOSE to go with a 'green energy' company

that only buys from Wind Farms

but they all cost tons of money due to the phonebook of taxes added

Or you can chose to not care about the environment and go cheap if you like.

lol ur describing the situation here 😄

because those green energy companies pay a fuckton for those solar farms

and wind farms

And yeah, Taxes and regulations are largely responsible for the high costs of a lot of things

im not from texas

Especially pharmaceuticals and energy.

I know.

But i didnt know texas was like this as well

A large portion of it is.

Certain parts rebelled against it because they were afraid of the new-fangled 'Smart Meters'.

They'd rather pay a guy a $50 connection fee.

Tbh i would too

I got "smart meters" on my heaters

I live smaller then before

better isolated then before

And i have never in my life paid more for heating then now

does electricity even need to be taxed?

It is here

I mean...

but why, what's the reasoning behind it?

And its not even a light tax, its a ridiculous tax

It depends on what you think the government should be doing, Shin.

If you think the government should be active in a caretaker role for people

then the taxes are necessary.

And, in fact, more taxes would be needed to strengthen that role.

if the government should be an active caretaker, it would be providing electricity in the first place, not taxing the businesses that provide it

If you believe government shouldn't be given decisive power over wellbeing as I do, you start to really see where cuts could be made.

adding 70% to the price, without actually helping to provide the service, seems bizarre