Profits over People: 450,000 Michigan families are sitting in the dark tonight because a summer thunderstorm, in July, was enough to take down the grid. Again.
Let that sink in. Not a hurricane. Not an ice storm. A summer storm, and half a million people lose power heading into the Fourth of July.
Here is what makes it infuriating. DTE always seems to find the money and the urgency when it is time to cut sweetheart deals for data centers and big corporate customers. New infrastructure for them? Fast-tracked. Special rates for them? Done. But the basic grid that serves your home, the poles and lines that are supposed to keep your lights on and your food from spoiling and your medical equipment running, somehow that never gets the same attention.
Michigan families pay some of the highest rates in the region for some of the WORST reliability in the country. Rate hike after rate hike gets approved, the shareholders and executives do just fine, and the moment the wind blows, we are the ones lighting candles and throwing out a fridge full of groceries.
Politicians donโt care, as they take DTEโs money. DTE cannot keep charging people more and delivering them less. A utility that has a monopoly on your power has an obligation to the people first, not the corporate accounts and the data centers.
To every family in the dark tonight, stay safe, stay far away from downed lines, and remember this the next time DTE and their friends in Lansing ask you to trust them. Ask your politicians if they take DTEโs money - money that came from you.
Michigan deserves a grid that works for people, not one that works everyone except them. Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! ๐บ๐ธ
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Donโt anyone ever ask me again why I hate summer because WHY is the RealFeel already sixteen whole degrees higher than the ambient temperature?????
ITโS NOT EVEN NOON