{"id":69478,"date":"2021-02-28T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=69478"},"modified":"2021-02-28T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T02:56:49","slug":"great-reset-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/great-reset-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Reset\/Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>One Houston Home\u2019s Electricity Bill Hits $9,340\u2014for One Week<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feb. 27 (EIRNS)\u2014A family in Chambers County, Texas, a suburb of Houston, has filed a class action suit against the electric company Griddy. Under the \u201cvariable rate plan,\u201d one of the disastrous results of the deregulation which gave us Enron and more, the electric company was allowed to jack up the price almost without limit when the system nearly shut down. The family said that their normal monthly electric bill was $200 and $250. But during the collapse, they were charged $9,340 for seven days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a news release, Mont Belvieu resident Lisa Khoury said the company engaged in \u201cunlawful price gouging\u201d during the storm and the breakdown caused by the freezing of the windmills and related breakdowns. \u201cGriddy charged Khoury in the middle of a disaster,\u201d the complaint said. \u201cShe and her husband mostly were without power in their home from Wednesday, February 17 to Thursday, February 18, 2021. At the same time, Khoury hosted her parents and in-laws, who are in their 80s, during the storm. Even then, she continued to minimize any power usage because of the high prices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griddy\u2019s response: \u201cThe lawsuit is meritless and we plan to vigorously defend against it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Houston Home\u2019s Electricity Bill Hits $9,340\u2014for One Week Feb. 27 (EIRNS)\u2014A family in Chambers County, Texas, a suburb of Houston, has filed a class action suit against the electric company Griddy. Under the \u201cvariable rate plan,\u201d one of the disastrous results of the deregulation which gave us Enron and more, the electric company was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":68843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1,505,632],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-69478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-environmentalism","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-green-new-deal","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69479,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69478\/revisions\/69479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}