Comments on: Ohio Utility Ships Customers Energy-Efficient Bulbs, Plus a Huge Bill

By: rae

rae — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:18:13 +0000

were getting RIPPED off people…..as long as we let them get away with it ..its going to never change..

By: rae

rae — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:17:08 +0000

i think the rates suck..were getting ripped off people .

By: rae

rae — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:18:13 +0000

were getting RIPPED off people…..as long as we let them get away with it ..its going to never change..

By: rae

rae — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:17:08 +0000

i think the rates suck..were getting ripped off people .

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OELC Challenges FirstEnergy’s Attempt to Avoid Efficiency Benchmarks « — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:42:58 +0000

[...] of the law. (For example, one of FE’s efforts to comply with the efficiency benchmarks was its notorious CFL program, a program that was poorly planned and widely criticized from the [...]

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:56:51 +0000

Free market is what’s made this country great. Why on earth would anyone in their RIGHT mind allow the government to decide what is “for their own good?” Oh, that’s right, Liberals aren’t right, they’re left.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:09 +0000

Every hear of the free market? It’s a novel concept.

The government is mandating how much energy an energy company can produce for it’s customers. Of course that is going to mean higher prices whether its a goofy bulb story or shortages or anything else. It’s not very complicated but liberals love to make it complicated.

All you need to understand here is this. Energy is BAD. Earth is GOOD. Stop using energy so mother Gaia can be saved. That means all you peons in your homes need to get with the program and you have no choice in the matter. It’s “for your own good”.

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By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:04 +0000

Indeed, this is extemely poor planning on the part of the utility. Especially if this is the best they can offer in the way of a conservation porgram. Makes me wonder if some of the former Enron accounting execs are working for FirstEnergy.

By: Nick Aster

Nick Aster — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:31:41 +0000

This has nothing to do with “liberals”. The point here is that Ohio and presumably this utility did a sloppy job of what could have otherwise been a good program. Decoupling would be a much better system, the way it’s done in California. In that system, utilities can give out CFLs for free, then modestly raise rates to cover the cost and save money because they don’t have to build new power plants, so it’s a real win win.

By: frgough

frgough — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:25:38 +0000

Once gain, liberals show that they either don’t know (or more likely don’t care) about economic law.

Price does not equal cost. Price must always be higher than cost or the business goes out of business. And, no, government bailouts don’t allow you to ignore this law. Only, because a government can’t go out of business, it produces inflation instead.

By: Herman Gurbutz

Herman Gurbutz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:56:14 +0000

I would be protesting. Signs and everything.

By: binaryorganic

binaryorganic — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:50:05 +0000

Inaccurate. You can’t say in your headline that the company “sent” the bulbs, and then in the story say that it’s been “postponed.”

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:15:23 +0000

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