Posted on 11/03/2009 3:33:26 AM PST by scoobysnak71
Minnesota Power is seeking an almost 20 percent increase in rates for its residential customers to cover investments made in cleaner, greener energy.
For the average residential customer, that amounts to $13 per month.
“We know this is unwelcome news at an unwelcome time,” said Pat Mullen, the company’s vice president of marketing and public affairs. “These are improvements that need to be made. It is creating an environment that we all value.”
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthnewstribune.com ...
Screw this. Make the people who support green power pay for this crap.
Fully half my bill this month was new unexplained charges.
On a slightly related note, did anyonce catch the recent episode of Mythbusters where they were doing an experiment in a windmill farm? The details of the experiment escape me, but it was interesting seeing the filming of the windmills. Some were moving in the wind, some were not. I guess that busts the idea (not that we ever believed it) that wind power is reliable.
Twenty percent equals $13? That means they are paying $65 a month for electricity? Huh?
I live in St. Cloud, let me tell you this state is getting out of control liberal.
Time to look at work postings to move out of here, I hear the Idaho mountains are beautiful with lots of clean, fresh air.
And then there is this ... The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to this NEW report from the Congressional Research Service.
The Democrat hoax of energy independence, it's just another liberal lie. We have lots of energy, we just choose not to access it.
We went out to SD this fall for vacation. Went past a bunch of windmills and guess what? All but about two were stopped. Came back, same thing. Either busted/broken (some were having their blades replacesd already), or wonder of wonders NO WIND! You should hear the howling up here when a companie wanted to install solar panels and needed to clear-cut about 400 acres for the first phase. Well, you socialist, hippie, Liberals, you are gonna get exactly what you hoped for. Problem is, the rest of the idiot liberals up here are too stupid to stand up and say NO! (Shows what happens when the gene pool gets a LITTLE bit too shallow...)
I had a $140 bill this month and only $80 of that was actual KH.
>”Twenty percent equals $13? That means they are paying $65 a month for electricity? Huh? “
My bill for last monthh was $134. Winter is coming and the furnace is going more. If anyone is paying $65 a month, it must be one of those little efficieny apartments.
Wait till it gets down to -40, then it’ll perk up.
What's your cost per KW/hr? The idea that people in MN are paying on average $65/month for electricity is just plain nuts.
That's the claimed average. That means about half are paying less - a lot less. That makes no sense. They have to be lying. Or, they are not counting subsidies.
What's the KW/hr charge for electricity up there?
The fact that they are all not being made to pay for this BS out of their own pockets is also a major contributing factor.
Without digging out the bill I’m not sure what the cost per KW/h is. All I know is that I have new charges that nobody seems able to explain. Things like a $13 energy recovery charge.
Just step one of many steps if all this green revolution and cap and trade nonsense is passed.
Well that more than covers the $100 per year (maximum cost) that the DEMOCRATS promised us with their Cap and Trade bill - and it hasn’t even passed yet!
“its going to happen everywhere else.”
It is. It’s another campaign promise that obama intends to keep. Voters didn’t like hearing the “scary” truth during the election.
It’s not the socialism-lite, it’s not the lies, it’s the artless way in which these people attempt to make it appear to be coincidence.
Electricity rates will go up, The Bush tax cut will run out, The Healthcare Bill will raise taxes and rates, the Cap and Trade bill will increase it even more and the morons in washington printing more money makes your money worth less.
This Obama guy is a friggin genious.
Dont we all love this Hopey-Changey?
In 2007 the state average was 7.44 cents/kWH
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/minnesota.html
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