[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 26, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CALLING OUT DTE ENERGY'S RATE HIKES AND CORPORATE GREED

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, I am getting tired of coming to the House 
floor to call out DTE Energy's corporate greed in my district.
  My residents cannot afford DTE's ridiculous rate hikes and terrible, 
unreliable service.
  Check this out: They increase rates between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 
p.m. when the majority of our families are home, literally in the 
middle of a deadly heat wave with temperatures of nearly 100 degrees.
  Despite DTE making more than a billion dollars in rate hikes in the 
last decade and $313 million in the second quarter of this year, DTE is 
never satisfied.
  DTE is one of the worst utilities in the Nation for power outages and 
restoring power. Yet we pay 16 percent more than the national average 
for this failing service.
  As long as a for-profit company controls our electrical power, it 
will be unaffordable and unreliable.
  We need public power. DTE and other for-profit utilities should be 
turned into publicly-owned and operated services so our families can 
live safely and have livable conditions in our country.

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