{"id":49946,"date":"2026-08-29T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49946"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:25:31","slug":"the-secret-behind-high-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/the-secret-behind-high-electricity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U98fgLqo-UA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a>Robert Reich\u00a0and Inequality Media <\/a>Premiered Aug 25, 2026 Private utility companies like PG&amp;E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans \u2014 and they&#8217;re using that monopoly power to drive up your bills while pocketing record profits. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. Watch. Find an active Public Power campaign near you: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVE15X3RSdlF6SEJGaGUyeGJVQkdkaHxBR3JiS2FtZ3FSN2R6WEE0MDFybldrOGhBVmNtVTg1aHVXYml2ODR1Y0pqMGZtd3hSd3dqQzR0VTNCRWczazh4YS1UY1F1NlFtSU9uakZoc0xGRFd5TFdJSy1MTWR1cFltdWE5&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Filsr.org%2Fenergy%2Fpublic-power-ownership%2F&amp;v=U98fgLqo-UA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ilsr.org\/energy\/public-power-&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich\u00a0and Inequality Media Premiered Aug 25, 2026 Private utility companies like PG&amp;E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans \u2014 and they&#8217;re using that monopoly power to drive up your bills while pocketing record profits. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. Watch. Find an active&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/the-secret-behind-high-electricity-bills\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2444],"tags":[2445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49947,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946\/revisions\/49947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}