How essential is the Internet? Is it a utility?

Amiga · Jul 21, 2014

Which remind me of this article from last Dec. I'm somewhat tired of continuing shopping for electricity provider every 6M just to get decent rates.

It seems consumers in the part of TX that remain regulated, on avg, pay much lower for electricity.

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/12/26/...n-more-in-electric-bills-for-texas-residents/

Texans living in deregulated electricity areas paid about $22 billion more in the last decade than they would have under a regulated system, according a recent analysis by a consumer group
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The findings raise questions about claims made at the time that deregulation would result in lower prices for Texan consumers. While prices for both deregulated and regulated electricity have fallen since their peak in 2008, average deregulated prices remain about 3 cents high per kilowatt hour than their regulated counterparts for residential consumers.
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Texas residential consumers have paid as much as 45 percent more for deregulated electricity than their counterparts in regulated areas of the state since lawmakers devised the new system for much of the state in 1999, according to the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, which recently published an assessment of Texas energy price data from 2002 through 2012.
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Dubious · Jul 21, 2014

The internet is the electrical wiring, it's not even power generation. The wires aren't deregulated. Is the basic cost everyone sees as a line item on their deregulated electric bill, the same for every company .

lpbman · Jul 22, 2014

All deregulation did was add a layer of middle men between the people who make electricity and the people who use it. 48 (literally) different companies with their own accounting dept., lawyers, meter readers etc. and somehow it's supposed to be cheaper? Baffling.

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