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> if I was, you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X.
by war1025 6y ago
> if I was, you can bet your sweet ass that I would be A. monitoring the wholesale price B. switching off my main breaker the moment the price went above $X.
Unfortunately, we can't really count on people being at all competent like that.
If I was in Texas this past week, you can bet that I would have monitored my lack of heat and shut off my water and drained the pipes in my house.
Instead, there is an astronomical amount of water damage from burst pipes now.
People who haven't considered or dealt with the worst case scenario will always be caught off guard. That's just the nature of it.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoI am/was a griddy customer. What all of these news stories do not mention is Griddy called literally every single customer and told them to close their accounts because of the upcoming energy shortage.
- war1025 6y agoThat seems quite upstanding of them and changes the dynamics of the situation quite a bit in my opinion.
- maxerickson 6y agoThey anticipated defaults and pushed customers to switch to providers of last resort that are obligated to sell electricity at regulated retail rates.
- sudosysgen 6y agoHow many of them didn't get call because, you know, no electricity?