{"id":1372,"date":"2006-08-02T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2011-05-19T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T02:52:53","slug":"who-do-you-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/who-do-you-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do you blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Startle Gram suggests we should be pointing blame the Texas PUC, not TXU for our high electricity rates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a natural thing to blame TXU for our high electric bills, but is TXU really at fault?<br \/>\nIf we&#8217;re going to blame anybody or anything, it should be Texas Public Utilities Commission, which has allowed TXU to jack up rates by 24 percent in just one year &#8230;<br \/>\nTwice a year, TXU is allowed to ask for a rate increase and it usually does, and the PUC usually says &#8220;Sure!&#8221; &#8230;. You all might be interested to know that TXU has never asked for a rate decrease.<br \/>\nYou all also might remember that the PUC will go out of business in January. That&#8217;s when deregulation of utilities in Texas is supposed to kick in &#8230;<br \/>\nI have no idea how this is going to play out, but it can&#8217;t be as bad as having an agency as ineffective as the PUC looking out for us &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Startle Gram suggests we should be pointing blame the Texas PUC, not TXU for our high electricity rates. It&#8217;s a natural thing to blame TXU for our high electric bills, but is TXU really at fault? If we&#8217;re going to blame anybody or anything, it should be Texas Public Utilities Commission, which has allowed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/who-do-you-blame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who do you blame?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-m8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}