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[deleted] OP t1_j48u4fc wrote

Our price per kWh roughly doubled a couple months ago. That bill should've only been ~$300/mo. You're paying the price of "supporting" Ukraine. We all are. Better turn that thermostat down to 55F. No complaining now, or the Pentagon bots will label you a Russian bot!

As an aside, you really don't have to sweat the lights. LED bulbs use almost nothing. If you still have old Boomer incandescent bulbs, you should replace them. It'll save you a couple hundred bucks in the long run, but the wasted energy of an incandescent bulb is lost as heat, and well, you're heating with electric heat anyway, so it really doesn't matter in the winter.

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jwc8985 t1_j493uwz wrote

Yet you ignore the fact that the energy companies, especially oil, raked in record profits last year. They just used Ukraine as a scapegoat to line their pockets. Unfortunately, this is a direct result of unfettered capitalism. But the people who support those who vote to keep capitalism unrestrained, refuse to see that they got what they voted for.

Blame the corporations recording record profits. Then blame those who vote to ensure that corporations can get away with it over and over again. I’ll wait.

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[deleted] OP t1_j49f99i wrote

We absolutely should've had price controls on food and energy like Nixon did in the 1970s, at a bare minimum. Really though, the oil companies should all be nationalized. But hey, that's my ideal world. We have a president who makes Nixon look like a socialist now. What can you do?

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