>>12748202>>12748210The "power company" doesn't offer this directly. You have to go with a company called Griddly to get these rates. It's not the default. It's not easy to get. No one was tricked into it. The customers were people who had gone out of their way to join up with a startup commodity trading platform. Griddly, and a handful of competitors, give you the spot market price, which is what electric distributors pay. That means it's often cheaper than what those distributors sell it to you for. It also means if the price goes up, you pay the higher price. If you're like 99.999999% of customers, you go with the normal power company and are insulated against swings in the energy market. But a very small number of people felt like turning their power bill into a casino and are mad that sometimes instead of winning, you lose.
No one accidentally chose this option. No one was tricked. You want society to pick up the cost of their mistakes? What's next, retroactive car insurance that you buy after getting into a wreck?
Fuck it, I'm going to Las Vegas and am going to demand the government pay me back for any money I lose. According to people like you, that's the moral thing to do.
