How Trump's promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US

[marmar]

(Guardian) Donald Trump has comprehensively failed to meet a key election promise to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency, with power prices instead surging across the US.

The average household electricity bill in the US was 6.7% more expensive in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistical arm. The increases meant that, on average, US households paid nearly $116 more across 2025 than they did in 2024.

The power bill increases have been extreme in many parts of the US, with residents of Washington DC experiencing the biggest increase, a 23% jump in electricity costs, followed by Indiana, with a 17% rise, and then Illinois, with a 15% increase, the EIA data shows. The midwest is the region of the US that has been hit by the steepest bill rises, which include utility costs laden on top of an underlying 4.9% average increase in the unit cost of the electricity itself.

On top of soaring electricity bills, US households have also been confronted by rising gas prices, which have jumped 5.2% on average in the past year, according to the EIA. As a result, there has been a spike in power disconnections for unpaid bills across many states – in New York the rate of disconnections rose fivefold from a year previous – with some households having to forgo other essentials in order to keep the lights on. ...................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase

[underpants]

1. Because he's a moron who thinks he can wish problems away

[J_William_Ryan]

2. It was a stupid 'promise' for Trump to make, to 'slash' Americans' energy bills

– Trump voters were even more stupid to believe Trump’s lies.

Trump had no plan to address rising energy costs, he has no understanding of that that entails, and he has no understanding of what it’s like to pay a monthly energy bill; indeed, he actually doesn’t care.

And Trump Cult members shouldn’t bother with their lies about how Trump ‘just needs more time.’

[Norrrm]

3. What was the % when he cut grocery prices on Day One?

??? Oh, yeah!