DEREGULATION HASN'T PROVIDED FAIRNESS....

Unless you are living under a rock, you probably know that household budgets are under assault from many fronts.  Belt tightening is occurring for many families across the country.  We now find that Texans haven’t been immune from these financial difficulties.

We all are facing higher costs for food, gasoline, clothing, health care, auto and home insurance and many other essential services.  The outlook for improvement is not good in view of the current political climate,  and recent domestic and Middle East events.  Signs of economic growth may now turn downward.

In my judgment, our situation will worsen in both the short and long term.  Those with fixed incomes will be hurt the most.  Relief from government is not on the horizon.  Municipalities, states, and our federal government are facing growing budget deficits and must make cuts and/or increase revenue.  The people will begin to bear a greater burden.

National news reported last week that one in five families is troubled with the payment of their utility bills.  We all know someone affected by these hardships.  Relief is needed, and frankly, is overdue.  Paying less for all utilities, including electricity, the topic driving this blog, should be the goal of every homeowner. 

Emotions and renewed self interests should be stirring with us all.  The mood of self improvement we see developing internationally and here at home hints for us, the people, to rise up to help combat high electricity prices that have resulted from deregulation. Collectively, we can make a difference.

The simplest explanation for what happened with deregulation is the lawmakers merely widened the spread or headspace between wholesale and retail so as to allow all the new players to come into the market and profit by administering our electricity accounts at our expense.  Operation of the new market is dishonest and unjust to ‘Joe Homeowner’, the little man.

This lack of fairness issue irks this writer and is the greatest motivator for this campaign.  When our electricity price was based on cost of generation and distribution with a reasonable business profit at retail, we were so much better off.  The new system stinks of profiteering and abuse of the customers.  The consumer is being manipulated.

This blog is a platform intended to give voice to the people and to win back the fairness battle.  I favor power with the people, not big business.  Fair minded fellow homeowners within the state are strongly urged to join this battle.

Help is needed to advance awareness of the ills of deregulation and to identify the wrongs and then to fight hard to see that the politicians, legislators and regulators fix them.  More Texans need to weigh in.  Our goal is a worthy one.

BE SURE TO READ THE NEXT POSTING ALSO.