'That's Violence' -- Corporations Can Turn Off Electricity For Past-Due Bills Starting Tuesday In TX

[TexasTowelie]

Starting Tuesday, private electricity corporations can shut off power to Texans who don't pay their bills.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) issued a moratorium on disconnections as COVID-19 wreaked economic havoc on working people last year, and reinstated it in response to the winter storm. For months, private industry pushed for an end to the moratorium, and they got their wish — just as the summer heat arrives.

The decision is expected to disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous and Latinx people, as well as seniors living on fixed incomes.

Betty and Weldon Gregory are retired. They live in Houston's Fifth Ward, where their monthly $1,800 in social security benefits is usually enough to get by. But money is tighter than normal after water damage from several floods and burst pipes during the winter storm.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2021/06/29/401849/thats-violence-corporations-can-turn-off-electricity-for-past-due-bills-starting-tuesday-in-texas/

[cate94]

1. Profit over people

Just evil.

[Hoyt]

2. Companies will likely allow people to continue service if they keep

up current charges and make some reasonable payments— depending on their circumstances— toward past bills. If they cut them off for the hell of it, they likely won’t get paid.

Hopefully some funding will develop to help those in need.

[gopiscrap]

3. Utilities should never be privatized

neither should prisons, mail, education, transportation or health

[fantase56]

4. this........

[MichMan]

5. The government should own all auto manufacturers, dealers and airlines?

That is the method of transportation for the vast majority of Americans.