February 24, 2021 By: El Jefe Category: Power Crisis
Dan Patrick, in an unsurprising response to the power crisis in Texas where at least 80 people have died and millions froze in the dark for days, told Fox Noise this week that those bitching about their high power bills should have “read the fine print” in their power contracts.
Here’s some fine print for you. FUCK YOU, Dan, and the horse your rode in on.
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Apparently he claimed he warned people about the risks, not to panic, and that “we’ll figure this out” before the fine print remark.
1I didn’t see a word about making providers forgive debts or refund money already collected.
I guess when repugnantcans say freedom isn’t free, there’s market forces involved.
And not just with Blackwater contracts.
Windfall profit taxes need to be returned at both the state and federal levels as means of controlling the outrageous greed.
El Jefe, I lack the words to express how absurd the profiteering has been with the Covid-19 pandemic. Compound that with the energy crisis and deaths in Texas? Out of respect for Ms. JJ and Mama, expletives deleted, delusional morons such as Dan Patrick need not only to be driven out of government but prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The math is too simple, when the average person’s energy bill is multiple times the previous month or for the same month in the previous year. Adding insult to injury they went without power, froze or nearly froze, suffered structural damage to their homes for the energy they never received and are now expected to pay outrageous amounts for a service they never received? The insanity is rampant among Republicons.
Please. May the nearly blue Texas rise up in 2022 and go full BLUE rejecting the idjits of the Dan Patrick swamp.
2Energy consumers used to be screwed by the smartest guys in the room. Now even the dumbest can manage it, adding insult to injury for good measure.
3Texas is not totally run by a$$h**es, but there are way too many of them in too high positions, and Dan Patrick is four or five of them all by himself.
4Well said.
5So, did those Texans have a choice in electric companies? Maybe some electric company that didn’t have that small print?
6FUCK YOU, Dan, BY the horse your rode in on.
7Fixed for you
Which “christianist” denomination/bible does he represent again?
8The deregulation is on brand. I even get it on a certain level. It is the total lack of humanity that gets me.
9But Jerry Jones made a killing so it all ok, right?
10How does reading the fine print help you when you’ve got a monopoly running things?
Asking for a friend.
11Theresa @6, I hate that I sort of agree with Dan Patrick here. But only sort of. In deregulated TX, there are hundreds, at least, of power companies you can choose to sign up with. The one I currently have charges us a fixed rate per kwh, regardless of the amount we use. So, my bill this month will be higher because we used more power because it was so cold; but only modestly higher. Other providers charge a fixed rate up to a certain usage, then if you go over that ceiling you’ll get charged at a higher rate. This plan will be cheaper than mine unless you go over the ceiling. The plan that’s getting all the news coverage is called “Griddy”, and charges the wholesale rate per kwh. That’s fine under normal usage, and will also be cheaper than both of the above plans. But when things go absolutely wacko in the market, like last week, wholesale prices skyrocket, and there’s no upper limit in the plan. Hence, the $17,000 electricity bills.
So yes, the unfortunate customers SHOULD have read the fine print and understood that they were gambling. Danny is correct there. Where we disagree is that I don’t think this type of plan should be allowed at all. Re-regulate our electricity!
12This is basic humanity though. When someone’s home is destroyed by a hurricane or an earthquake it is certainly true in the academic sense to point out that maybe they shouldn’t have built a home right by the ocean or right on a fault line. However, that’s not a human response. It’s the response of an incredible jackass.
13I thought Patrick died to save the young from inconvenience.
I always thought that was his best idea.
14Hey, Dan, it’s hard to read fine print when you’re sitting in the dark.
BTW, John Fetterman would like that million for his Senate campaign.
15So what exactly has the damn patrick said since his “fine print” comments as to how he’ll “figure it out”? I assume the TX press are asking him and abbott that question unmercifully. Maybe allow power customers to bill the power companies the same rate for every hour they went without power and heat. I hope the families that had deaths as a result of this fiasco file a class action suit naming all those responsible for the power disaster including abbott and the utility companies.
16Maybe he should have read the fine print about how an elected official should treat his constituents. If this doesn’t get him shown to the curb in the next election, I don’t know what it would take.
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