In Chicago, the dead vote. It involves holding the hands of people who don't even know you're there to check off the choice of the person controlling that hand, not of the person who owns it, and to sign the ballot. Voting is about all these old folks can do for their country and we make sure they vote the right way. They think this is admirable behavior, when it is despicable and needs to be stopped. If this is done in one place, I'm sure it's done in many.
Somebody needs to mount an investigation.
These surcharges are doing the same thing to customers. So they have no choice but to absorb not only their own significantly higher energy prices, but those of the companies they're patronizing, too. It's worse than inflation. You know that. But most of the people in the world don't know that.