• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    So you’re telling me if I found a way reach all my fellow power company customers we could strike and lower our power rates?

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      6 天前

      Many states have very regulated utility prices: you may need just a half dozen buddies and get appointed to the oversight board that approves rates

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      6 天前

      Yes. It’s like big telecom. When people install panels at home, power companies start inventing additional fees. If communities start looking for local grids, companies start lobbying to outlaw this.

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      6 天前

      The main problem with that is the large power consumption by industry. This is ensuring continued profits for the company and thereby weakens your influence, similar to hiring scabs.

    • BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world
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      5 天前

      In the short term, yes. The money you’ve saved is now considered “disposable income” and will be absorbed by the next person in line.

      If a paycheck could make you wealthy, no one would give you a paycheck. A retirement account CAN make you wealthy but only after the machine has squeezed 40+ years out of you. But one way or another that money is leaving your hands and flowing back into the system.