The de-regulation and free market faith based pricing sure works dandy! Via salon.com.
"In 2002, Texas sweepingly deregulated its electricity market. Today, a page one story in the Wall Street Journal by Rebecca Smith informs us that citizens of Texas are paying some of the highest electricity rates in the United States."
. . . is there anything about conservative economic policy/Reaganomics that's NOT bullsheeet?"Power costs are rising in the rest of the U.S., but everything is bigger in Texas: On a hot day in May, wholesale prices rose briefly to more than $4 a kilowatt hour -- about 40 times the national average."
-Prodigal Son
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