Oh yes you are right.
I remember from my attempt to use the battery gauge as an LED bar chart it displays the label twice, --bglabel and --fglabel.
They are both needed so the value shows up even if the fill % is below the position of the text.
No, me neither! 
Try using !important in your CSS.
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