Appalachian Power is Robbing Us Blind
Let’s get one thing straight: This ain’t just business. This is theft.
From Chase Linko-Looper:
West Virginia, I want y’all to take a good hard look around. This is what happens when a state gets sold off, piece by piece, to corporations that don’t give a damn whether we live or die.
AEP is robbing us blind. Another rate hike. Again. Like we’re made of money. Like we’re just supposed to sit down, shut up, and hand over whatever little we got left. Like we haven’t been bled dry already.
Let’s get one thing straight: This ain’t just business. This is theft. AEP raked in $17.9 billion in revenue last year. Their CEO made over $12 million. Meanwhile, one in four households in West Virginia are struggling to pay their power bills.
And what do we get? Higher rates, broken promises, and a bunch of bought-and-paid-for politicians telling us there’s “nothing they can do.” Bullshit.
This is by design. They want us poor. They want us desperate. They want us so busy scrambling to survive that we don’t have time to fight back.
Well, guess what? We’re here, and we’re damn sure fighting back.
This ain’t about left or right. This is about the people vs. the corporations. It’s about families vs. greed. It’s about telling these parasites NO MORE.
We built this state. We powered this country. And now, they want to leave us in the dark? Let our elders freeze in the winter? Let working parents drown in bills? Not on our watch.
So what do we do? We raise hell. We flood the Public Service Commission with calls. We show up at every hearing. We put so much pressure on these politicians that they can’t sleep at night without hearing our voices in their heads. We demand a stop to this rate hike and a rollback of the ones they’ve already shoved down our throats.
Because if we don’t fight now, they will never stop. They will keep taking until there is nothing left to take.
Remember what Mother Jones said: “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
Well, the conflict is here. And we ain’t sitting down.
West Virginia, we fight today, or we freeze tomorrow. Let’s make some noise. Let’s make them listen.
From West Virginia Public Broadcasting:
Appalachian Power electricity customers protested a proposed rate increase on the Capitol steps Thursday.
Groups have urged the legislature to do something about the rising cost of electricity in West Virginia.
If approved by the West Virginia Public Service Commission, the company’s proposal would raise the average customer’s bill by $23.74 a month.
Bills have been introduced to freeze rates and suspend disconnections, but they’ve not advanced out of committee…