Widespread Panic Over Your Electric Bill?

I just got a copy of today's "Richmond Times Dispatch" and see that my electric bill has been 'approved' to jump to $107 a month, on average. A warning below posts that 'much bigger natural gas bills could be close behind'. So we're supposed to pay that, along with increasing gas and food costs. Never-mind what our economy ignores, (as posted below). What is wrong with this world? Trying to price the middle class out of existance? Nooooooooo not in our socitey. Yeeeeeeessss. We're screwed. Never mind what you can't pay for with minimum wage, lets look at what you can't pay for with an average income. Basic needs, that's what you can't pay for.

And this is helping society how? I guess only wealthy people are qualified to contribute substantially to our progress. WRONG. But never mind that. If you can't pay for gas, electricity, food, well, you might die. But nevermind, let us die then, and decrease the surplus population, as Ebeneezer Scrooge once said.

Yep, it all winds back to a Dickens novel.

From "The Richmond Times Dispatch" - "Electric rates across Virginia will jump more than 18 percent - just in time for the hottest part of the summer - as Dominion Virginia Power yesterday won regularots approval to collect an additional $1.3 BILLION from customers."

And it's more expensive why?