Michiganders are literally shutting off Christmas lights and hang-drying laundry—“basically living Amish”—yet their monthly power bills still top $200 as monopoly utilities Consumers Energy and DTE chase nine-figure rate hikes. Critics say Whitmer-appointed regulators keep green-lighting the hikes to bankroll the governor’s net-zero climate agenda, even as Michigan endures some of the worst outage records in the country—proof, they argue, that customers are paying more and getting less.
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