Whenever they have a spike in demand, the de-regulated prices go up by several hundred percent. Example

  • @bitchkat
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    41 month ago

    When I was growing up the people across the street had an uninsulated houses – in NW Wisconsin.

    I guess Texas is going to do Texas things but with the heat and the grid falling apart every couple of years, they really should mandate the same level of insulation that we do up north.

    • FuglyDuck
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      41 month ago

      Yeah… I’m in MN.

      It’s not like we don’t get triple digits ourselves in recent years. And it really does come down to shaving down those construction costs. The insulation would pay for itself in like 2 years, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      they really should mandate

      That sound you hear is Texas loudly pushing back on any sort of gubmint infetterance.

      • @bitchkat
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        21 month ago

        Did you mean interfetterance?