Is Blumenthal going to request that the power companies “compensate” those affected by the recent storms as well?
In Maryland when the power goes out (as it regularly does in even a slight breeze due to all the trees over growing power lines, etc) the customers must prop up the utility (let the utility recoup money lost to them from outages) with fees added to customers’ bills.
He shouldn’t have to. Power companies in NJ credited the 8 days without power with one phone call.
/but that was only after turning away non-union help from Alabama. (another urban legend. I personally watched workers in trucks with Alabama plates restore our power.)