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March_Latter t1_izz050f wrote

Reply to comment by Accurate-Historian-7 in Alternative Electric Provider by Due_Dragonfly_5547

My cost was $90....it went to $140. My rooms are always bright, my TV is always on. Now if the rest of the area does not want to conserve the answer is very simple. You need a new power plant, and that will never happen in RI.

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_randapanda_ t1_j06j7ls wrote

Your electric bill went up 56%. It’s nice that you imagine every person and home has exactly your circumstances, but for the majority of people a 56% increase in an electric bill is a hefty increase.

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March_Latter t1_j06jm7k wrote

My mother lives in 3000sf of 1970's technology.. If she can keep her electric bill below $150 the people with LEDS have no method of complaining. It doesn't even take effort, when you leave a room shut off the light. At night does it look like daylight outside? Shut off the light.

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_randapanda_ t1_j06ly5z wrote

Yes you’re very special and do everything right and everyone should be just like you.

Unfortunately, they’re not, and the answer to a 56% energy bill increase is not “well turn off your lights”, because that is objectively ridiculous in New England in the winter, especially in cases when the majority of people’s bills are going to heating their homes which is not negotiable in freezing weather.

Enjoy your 56% increase and blaming other people for not wanting to have their own bills hiked. It’s weird that you’re taking the time to defend energy corporations for raising rates.

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March_Latter t1_j06n15j wrote

Its weird you don't think people can have the room they are not occupying dark. Also who is dumb enough after all these years to put electric heat in New England? Even the heat pump companies tell you to add gas or propane for the actual cold weather. So I assume you love solar panels like the rest of the dumb shits. If you sell them you can afford them on your house, but stop preying on the poor with overpriced and senseless garbage.

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_randapanda_ t1_j06ptmq wrote

Plenty of houses have electric heat, they weren’t built in the last 20 years. If your fix is “don’t live in this current reality” than your solutions are unserious and I can’t imagine why you’re commenting on a threat about energy bill reductions.

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March_Latter t1_j08d90z wrote

Rhode island...its just an idiot state...Turn the lights on, get solar. Hell run the dryer all day for heat. Pay the most you can to a solar salesman and make sure you finance. Whole state of idiots who deserve their lot in life.

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