{"id":1333581,"date":"2022-02-23T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333581"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:52:39","slug":"nyc-business-asks-customers-for-help-paying-skyrocketing-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-business-asks-customers-for-help-paying-skyrocketing-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Business Asks Customers For Help Paying Skyrocketing Energy Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-business-asks-customers-for-help-paying-skyrocketing-energy-bills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333581&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-857210236.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An internet caf\u00e9 in New York City is asking customers for donations to pay for skyrocketing electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Calotta, who manages the Astoria Internet Caf\u00e9 in Queens, New York, said he screamed \u201cprofusely\u201d when he opened the envelope containing his energy bill for January, which showed a 26% increase over the prior month. The bill was for $702.51, Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nyc-internet-cafe-asking-for-donations-pay-con-edison-bill-2022-2\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first I was like, \u2018What is wrong? What happened?&#8217;\u201d Calotta told the outlet. He said he checked the meters and confirmed they were working properly.<\/p>\n<p>In order to help pay for the exorbitant bill, Calotta posted a sign asking for customers to donate to help cover the cost. The sign notes that, according to Calotta\u2019s calculation, the bill reflects a 300% increase in per-kilowatt hour prices for supply and delivery charges, Insider reported.<\/p>\n<p>Calotta\u2019s caf\u00e9 is not the only business experiencing higher energy bills from provider Con Edison. Greenpointers, <a href=\"https:\/\/greenpointers.com\/2022\/02\/08\/north-brooklyn-residents-say-their-recent-con-edison-electric-bills-were-much-higher-than-usual\/\">a local outlet<\/a>, reported earlier this month that numerous readers told them their energy bills had jumped precipitously since the prior month. State Senator Julia Salazar, a Democratic Socialist from Brooklyn, also posted that her energy bill had increased even though they hadn\u2019t used \u201cmore power than previous two months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salazar blamed the increase on corporate greed. Con Edison told Insider that the increase was due to rising gas prices:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The changes in customer bills in January were mainly due to the supply cost of the energy commodity. Natural gas is a driver of electricity costs as it is used by generation plants to create electricity. Con Edison does not make a profit on the commodity. We buy the energy on the wholesale market and provide it to customers at the same price we paid. Energy prices are volatile and can be affected by factors such as weather, demand, and economic trends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Con Edison is taking action to address the increase in energy supply costs and its impact on our customers. We are reviewing all of our practices that affect customer supply costs, including our energy-buying practices, the tools we use to reduce supply price\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-is-volatility\">volatility<\/a>, the way we communicate changes in supply prices, and our programs to help customers who have fallen behind on their bills.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The higher prices come at a time with record inflation and with oil prices approaching $100 a barrel, with President Joe Biden warning last week that the sanctions his administration placed on Russia would cause gas prices to rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we respond, my administration is using every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers from rising prices at the pump,\u201d Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-there-will-be-costs-for-americans-here-at-home-as-a-result-of-my-foreign-policy-decisions\">said<\/a> at the time, as The Daily Wire reported. \u201cAs I said last week, defending freedom will have costs for us as well, here at home. We need to be honest about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as we will do \u2014 but as we do this, I\u2019m going to take robust action and make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy, not ours,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cWe are closely monitoring energy supplies for any disruption. We\u2019re executing a plan in coordination with major oil-producing consumers and producers toward a collective investment to secure stability and global energy supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s energy policy since taking office, however, has been to reverse many decisions that former President Donald Trump made that resulted in the lowest gas prices in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internet caf\u00e9 in New York City is asking customers for donations to pay for skyrocketing electricity bills.Bryan Calotta, who manages the Astoria Internet Caf\u00e9 in Queens, New York, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}