[anon7000]

Every for-profit company operating under capitalism is essentially required to be greedy in order to be successful.

[loeg]

Under this definition, the word is devoid of meaning.

[hackable_sand]

That is broadly true, but we need more accuracy.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Every for-profit company operating under capitalism is essentially required to be greedy

Every company (currently) depends on atmospheric oxygen, that doesn’t make O2 the cause of energy prices.

Greed exists. It always has. Unless energy distributors have specifically become more greedy, recently and globally, the answer is somewhere else.