Thread by @SenWhitehouse

Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors.

Here’s how it works. 🧵

1. The Trumpsters make good on their crooked deal with fossil fuel donors to harass and harm fossil fuel’s clean energy competitors, competitors who actually made up 95% of all new power added to the grid last year.

2. Delaying that clean energy coming on line puts more dependence on polluting fossil fuel, so more pollution (they don’t care, they get to pollute for free) but also more consumption, meaning more revenue (bingo!) to fossil fuel.

3. Worse, polluting units that would not be called up if there was adequate clean energy on line, now get called up. Units that would be idle come on line, generating more revenue (bingo!) for the owners (while adding pollution).

4.  Worse still, the grid price is set by the last unit called up, and every unit gets paid that rate, so ALL the running units get paid more, adding more revenue (bingo!) to owners.

5.  Those added costs get passed through to utility consumers, often automatically without review, so utility bills skyrocket.

All that added cost to you is put in place by Trumpsters steering revenue (bingo!) to fossil fuel donors.

Get it? Don’t be chumped by Trump.

When your bill goes up, know where the blame lies.  
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