Here in Vegas they announced on the local news that the power company got the local govt. to approve a rate increase because people aren't using as much power!
WTF?!?!?!
They run t.v. commercials here all the time from the power company encouraging people to use less. And then they raise the rates to keep your bill high anyway.
EDIT: If you noticed...Congress is about to raise the gasoline tax because...you guessed it, people aren't using as much gas in their cars and they need more money for highway infrastructure. Fucking unreal.