I want to believe that RIE doesn"t have infinite power to organize and enforce collections on a huge chunk of the state going deliquinent on their bills. I mean, collections agencies only have finite staff. They can handle some some small fraction of the state's collections. But not 50%+. The courts couldn't handle it either. What, we'd have the police dragging people from their freezing homes en masse because RIE screwed the state over?

If we "all" don't pay and screw their cashflow and inundate them with collections issues they could maybe get a message that the situation is friggin bonkers and exploitive.

I know they can. But would they turn off power for tens of thousands of people? a) millions in lost revenue and b) how horrible would it look if they cut the power to thousands of homes?

It's one thing to do it to a hundred dead beats that won't pay. It's another to paralyze a whole state.

The idea is that we are the consumers and we should have the power (pun!).