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...but fuck Stream Energy, Dynawatt, Texas Power, Ambit Energy, Reliant Energy, Cirro, and any other company with either a comparable or lower rate than TXU Energy, as well as a ridiculous cancellation fee that prevents me from switching them to TXU and making my commission.

I work doing door-to-door marketing for an independant electric provider. Texas is deregulated, for those of you who don't understand. Now ost people aren't going to care about this, but I do, and that's all that matters...



Why is it that people are willingly donating (yes, DONATING) hundreds of dollars per year to their electric provider, when TXU (my company) offers cheaper rates, price protection for a year or two (two different plans), PAYS them $50-$75 to sign with us, allows them 2 1/2 months to cancel free of charge, has no monthly service charges, has no switching fee, etc.? It makes no fucking sense, and it drives me crazy some days. I swear, if I wasn't signing anyone up at all, I'd have quit already. Whatever. I'll sign up their neighbors and save THEM money. Some people are just too fucking stupid...



Please, somebody, please message me if you have any genuine reason that people are willing to waste so much money...

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SomnolentSimacrulum
03:11 Jan 12 2008

TXU sold its natural gas reserves to Atmos, leaving them in control of basically a nuclear power plant. Cheap, clean, and efficient. If I had to make heads or tails of this rather confusing situation I would say it has to do with that. I don't know how the gas vs. electricity usage in Texas runs. In LA, natural gas is cheaper on account of our reserves. I'm going to wager that cheaper electricity is the highest priority in most Texan households over natural gas. Now I'm not well informed enough to sling this accusation, but I'm guess the other power company interests have banded together and are using some underhanded tactics to control the market. I think it's relatively fair to assume they control a combined sum of principal and influence that is much greater than TXU. Similar things have happened in Louisiana on multiple occasions. TXU might be a state company, but politicians are ultimately only concerned with lining their own pockets and energy is an easy way to do it. My guess TXU exists as an elaborate plot to look like they're environmentally and energy crisis oriented to keep the federal grant money. I don't know the details, but some of these things probably stand to reason.

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