Let Them Eat Gas

When the Texas House State Affairs Committee heard market reform bills for the first time last week, Chairman Todd Hunter implored witnesses to focus on the Texans who too often have been lost in the conversations about Texas’ energy future: “Now the one name I never hear is the word consumer or public or the taxpayer or the ratepayer. … Look at the impact on the public, the consumer, the ratepayer and the taxpayer.”

Good.

Because Texas consumers and ratepayers will certainly be missing from this week’s energy conversation on the other side of the Capitol. The Senate is poised to approve bills this week that could send electricity costs skyrocketing — no one knows by how much. And Senators, it seems, couldn’t care less…