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WeakAndWeary OP t1_j5zbz5x wrote

Reply to comment by degggendorf in What if we all just decided not to pay our February electricity bills? by WeakAndWeary

I want to believe that RIE doesn"t have infinite power to organize and enforce collections on a huge chunk of the state going deliquinent on their bills. I mean, collections agencies only have finite staff. They can handle some some small fraction of the state's collections. But not 50%+. The courts couldn't handle it either. What, we'd have the police dragging people from their freezing homes en masse because RIE screwed the state over?

If we "all" don't pay and screw their cashflow and inundate them with collections issues they could maybe get a message that the situation is friggin bonkers and exploitive.

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degggendorf t1_j5zdgel wrote

> I want to believe that RIE doesn"t have infinite power to organize and enforce collections on a huge chunk of the state going deliquinent on their bills.

Through March, they have zero power to enforce collections.

> we'd have the police dragging people from their freezing homes en masse because RIE screwed the state over?

First, not paying a bill is not a criminal offense, so the police won't get involved.

Second, your house won't be freezing because RIE cannot shut anyone off until April 15.

Third, how do you see RIE screwing the state over? That 2% increase to their ROE that the PUC approved? Otherwise, the energy supply costs are a straight passthrough.

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