Electric bill. I can’t afford this shit. No one I know can. They’re offering payment relief for “needy families”, you just have to spend hours upon hours collecting financial and personal information from everyone in your household, talking to call center robots, going back and forth between out-of-the-way buildings and waiting in line… etc etc. only to MAYBE get a 1/3 refunded.

They’re blaming it on inflation and pwetty pwomising they’re not making any extra profit by charging people double this month. Despicable.

  • SovereignStateOP
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    2 years ago

    They mention Ukraine here.

    Quit sending them fucking arms then you fucking ghouls! The war would be over tomorrow! And drop the sanctions!

  • KiG V2
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    172 years ago

    Also, yes, this is the whispers of collapse to come. I guess the good news for us is as shit gets exponentially worse, it will radicalize more people, and then when we have enough bodies we can actually do something and this nightmare empire that has tortured the world for centuries can finally die.

  • lemmygrabber
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    Does it say how many units you used compared to the previous month?

    Either way the price is very high assuming your energy usage is normal. Extortionary even.

  • KiG V2
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    142 years ago

    H-O-L-Y fucking shit.

    That’s actually insane. I’ve never had one higher than $120ish but we also have a tiny apartment on the bottom floor with tree/hill insulation.

    I wish I had something better to offer and I know you didn’t ask for advice but are there some energy saving tricks you could do to trim it down a few? I know getting two sets each of heavy black-out curtains and covering some big windows helped us trim it a little bit (also required the initial investment but Goodwill/Salvation Army has curtains sometimes), and during the day I open all the curtains and blinds and have no lights on. I’m also butt ass naked during the summer with the thermostat up and layered up in the winter with the thermostat down. I’m sure there’s hundreds of other smaller random tricks out there too.

    And yes they make that shit deliberately difficult. Is it a once-and-set deal or would you have to go through this ordeal for every month you needed relief?

  • DankZedong A
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    I’m on a fixed monthly rate for a year which I closed on a good time. I pay around 60 euro’s a month right now. But there’s going to be an end bill next year and I’m a bit worried.

    I think electricity and gas costs might actually be a big factor in civil unrest within a year. You can’t say your hand are tied and you need to raise prices while also reporting record profits. And I hope my party steps up to highlight this.