Even if they are, it isn’t necessarily bad thing. If the demand is going above supply you need to decrease demand or increase supply. If you increase cost you decrease demand.
However, the article above doesn’t give enough information to draw conclusions and it doesn’t even have sources.
What is the complete picture?
What are you, some kind of communist?
/S in case
Texans aren’t actually paying those increased prices, not directly anyway.
Even if they are, it isn’t necessarily bad thing. If the demand is going above supply you need to decrease demand or increase supply. If you increase cost you decrease demand.
However, the article above doesn’t give enough information to draw conclusions and it doesn’t even have sources.