Eve 
I'm a well-known hater of my "local" power company (Duke Energy), for a variety of reasons including environmental crimes they've been convicted of. Their most recent crime is illegally collecting money that wasn't owed them.
The NC Court of Appeals refused to make them pay back their ill gotten gains on the argument that the NC legislature had passed a bill that would have allowed Duke to take that money they weren't owed anyway.
This has made a lot of people understandably very upset, especially as Duke Energy prices skyrocket out of control and Duke Energy refuses to repair its last mile infrastructure, leading to frequent brown-outs in less wealthy neighborhoods.
So, what are they doing with their government approved loot? Repairing last mile infrastructure? If so, it still hasn't reached my underprivileged neighborhood where we've had at least four brown outs in rapid succession this morning.
What they definitely are doing is making me see a bunch of ads about how great they are.
I need solar panels and a just society.
Eve :kitty_nb: :paw: (@[email protected])
Noted criminal [Duke Energy](https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/duke-energy-pleads-guilty-to-environmental-crimes-in-north-carolina/) isn't interested in maintaining their last mile infrastructure, every time there's any kind of weather, the power goes in and out repeatedly. Sometimes when there isn't any weather either but mostly when there's weather. We have three UPSes to keep important computers and a server running. My roommate wants a fourth because the TV keeps going out today.
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