There is a lot of people who make a lot of money working for company's who make a lot of money wholesaling electricity. 

Electricity is the same as any commodity, bought by intermediataries from Producers and sold to other entities.

Cousin's husband has worked for one such brokerage company for 20+ years.  They ain't exactly living "hand to mouth",,, far from it......

It's one of those industries 99.9% of people never hear about and is very lucritive...

Edit,,this is a retail outfit, looked at their financials,, and background.. Nothing like what I was refering to as "wholesalers"...

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