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Kirk S
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RE: http://www.washtimesherald.com/local/local_story_316213818.html

Can't blame this on fuel prices because they are way down now. Everything in this world is going up but wages and people are losing jobs left and right but yet nobody ever wants to do anything but raise rates on everything, this world is one big messed up place.
 
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sir knight
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You ought to feel blessed to pay what you do for electric water sewer and trash pick-up. Try remc for awhile then see how you feel.
 
Posts: 142 | Location: washington | Registered: March 17, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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"Mayor Larry Haag said the city would have to raise its electric rates, the first time in 20 years, to compensate. He compared wasteful electric use to drug addiction and said the city could save 30 percent in electric use easily."

If this is true and rates haven't been raised in 20 years, I don't think there is much room to complain.
 
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The problem here is even if we have not changed in 20 years -- They sure picked a Hell of a time to raise!!!!! With MANY wondering how there will be enough food and heat for the family -- now there is an added insult to life in these hard times. [for most homes - you can't heat or cook or bathe without power]
 
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sir knight
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Originally posted by OBSERVER:
The problem here is even if we have not changed in 20 years -- They sure picked a Hell of a time to raise!!!!! With MANY wondering how there will be enough food and heat for the family -- now there is an added insult to life in these hard times. [for most homes - you can't heat or cook or bathe without power]



Really its a smart time to make this change if your the mayor or a council member. They hope people will forget this happened come next election 2011.
 
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Actually Sir Kinght, I don't think you can place 100% of the blame on the City. I'm pretty sure before a utility company is allowed to raise it's rates they must receive permission from the state.

Also, the City is just the middle man. They people they get the power from in raising rates, what do you expect the City to do?
 
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I wonder if the officials of Washington are looking into the need for expanded homeless shelters etc. here for the future. By spring, I have a feeling there will most likely be a need by many here in town unless something makes a drastic change in the next few weeks and months. Toyota and Crane and Wally World do not pay all the wages in this town - and even they may finally be hit.
[I have heard of some who are still in a house, but are already living with no heat or electricity in our area]
 
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Actually Sir Kinght, I don't think you can place 100% of the blame on the City. I'm pretty sure before a utility company is allowed to raise it's rates they must receive permission from the state.

Also, the City is just the middle man. They people they get the power from in raising rates, what do you expect the City to do?



I don't blame the city at all just stating now is the best time politicly to do this.
 
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Haag mentioned low energy lighting -- we have used nothing but low energy lighting in our house for Years! It will take more than that to make up for our difference in billing -- we are already at his recomendation. [and so are many others] I can't help it if he and the city offices are behind in that effort.
 
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Jethro Bodine
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Tying together a couple of posts...

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Originally posted by OBSERVER:
Toyota and Crane and Wally World do not pay all the wages in this town - and even they may finally be hit.



Our largest local boss-man happens to be the Illegal Employer, who's been taking heavy hits for over a year in the volatile commodity markets. Since July nearby corn futures've dropped off from $7.50/bushel to nearing $3.75/bu today. This plus plummeting transportation costs enhances Washington's economic portfolio -- as long as Uncle Sam continues to play the fool & close his eyes to contraband labor.

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Originally posted by jb399:
...the City is just the middle man. The people they get the power from in raising rates, what do you expect the City to do?


Our old friend jb399 raises a good point. Why should the City be "the middleman" in providing the townsfolk's electricity? Do Free Market practices somehow not apply to municipal utility companies? If the City wasn't stuck in the middle between electricity-providers & consumers, would rates rise more than they're about to?
 
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Originally posted by Jethro Bodine:
Tying together a couple of posts...

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Originally posted by OBSERVER:
Toyota and Crane and Wally World do not pay all the wages in this town - and even they may finally be hit.


The city wasn't the middleman when we had our own powerplant at the eastside park. Do you remember whose dumb idea it was to give that up?


Our largest boss-man happens to be the Illegal Employer, who's been taking heavy hits for over a year in the volatile commodity markets. Since July nearby corn futures've dropped off from $7.50/bushel to nearing $3.75/bu today. This plus plummeting transportation costs enhances Washington's economic portfolio -- as long as Uncle Sam continues to play the fool & close his eyes to contraband labor.

quote:
Originally posted by jb399:
...the City is just the middle man. The people they get the power from in raising rates, what do you expect the City to do?


Our old friend jb399 raises a good point. Why should the City be "the middleman" in providing the townsfolk's electricity? Do Free Market practices somehow not apply to municipal utilities? If the City wasn't stuck in the middle between electricity-providers & consumers, would rates rise more than they're about to?
 
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The city wasn't the middleman when we had our own powerplant at the eastside park. Do you remember whose dumb idea it was to give that up?
 
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Jethro Bodine
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Originally posted by sir knight:
The city wasn't the middleman when we had our own powerplant at the eastside park. Do you remember whose dumb idea it was to give that up?



IIRC it was Leo J Sullivan's idea to abandon the powerplant on the East End.
 
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quote:
Originally posted by sir knight:
quote:
Originally posted by Jethro Bodine:
Tying together a couple of posts...

quote:
Originally posted by OBSERVER:
Toyota and Crane and Wally World do not pay all the wages in this town - and even they may finally be hit.


The city wasn't the middleman when we had our own powerplant at the eastside park. Do you remember whose dumb idea it was to give that up?


Our largest boss-man happens to be the Illegal Employer, who's been taking heavy hits for over a year in the volatile commodity markets. Since July nearby corn futures've dropped off from $7.50/bushel to nearing $3.75/bu today. This plus plummeting transportation costs enhances Washington's economic portfolio -- as long as Uncle Sam continues to play the fool & close his eyes to contraband labor.

quote:
Originally posted by jb399:
...the City is just the middle man. The people they get the power from in raising rates, what do you expect the City to do?


Our old friend jb399 raises a good point. Why should the City be "the middleman" in providing the townsfolk's electricity? Do Free Market practices somehow not apply to municipal utilities? If the City wasn't stuck in the middle between electricity-providers & consumers, would rates rise more than they're about to?


The City of Washington is the distributor of the power. They buy it wholesale and resell to us. They pass along any rate increase of there's automaticaly. They dropped out of the regulatory commission and the City Council can set the rates without a hearing by the state.
 
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Very bad idea,the city could've been self relient. And had more good paying jobs availible.
 
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