El Paso Times' Vic Kolenc wrote a recent piece about El Paso Electric's profit.
Maybe it was Kolenc or maybe it was somebody else, but the headline "El Paso Electric's profit was $91.4M in 2014; higher rates wanted in 2016" does nobody any favors.
We all know everybody hates El Paso Electric.
And certainly when people see $90 million in profit it only fuels that hatred.
A more appropriate headline would have been "After generating $600M in Revenue, El Paso Electric's profit was $91.4M in 2014."
Even then my headline is still kinda crude, but a lot less crude than the El Paso Times' headline.
When you look at El Paso Electric's revenue vs profit, you kinda realize "Shit, they ain't so greedy after all."
Hell, some of you might at actually look at your margins and say "Damn, I do better than El Paso Electric."
Then they rest of you will go buy iPhones and won't bat an eye at Apple's margin yet find a way to bitch and moan about El Paso Electric being greedy and stuff.