Alleged that gas companies created artificial shortage days before storm to boost demand and then charge elevated rates, which then caused blackouts

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Those companies, plaintiff’s lawyer Andrew Gould argued on Monday, “diverted natural gas before winter, to create artificial scarcity — thus driving up the price.”

    This would be hilarious if true. Capitalism strikes again.