Angry utility customers in places like Grand Valley and Grand Mesa pen poison letters: “It’s a monopoly! Reduce obscene CEO pay!”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3949927/posts
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Ahhhh…just put up another windmill and a solar panel…
Plus, there is no such thing as a temporary utility rate increase.
The smallish town (~8,000 population) I used to live in had a ‘temporary’ rate increase eight years ago to update the sewer system.
Eight years later; an eight million dollar and a ten million federal grant later, a million dollar emergency state grant later and the ‘temporary’ rate increase is still there, plus a 1.5% city sales tax sales tax increase ‘to fix the sewer system’ instituted five years ago, joined by a few new other surcharges on the sewer bill.
But some pointy headed Leftist intellectual in Cambridge Massachusetts decides that Colorado doesn't need cheap energy. Massachusetts people move to Colorado and yap off to everyone in earshot that coal is bad. Suddenly Colorado faces rising energy costs. You connect the dots.
“Temporary” price hikes. In the history of the world how often have “temporary” price hikes been temporary?
Temporary? Sure it is. 😕
“temporary”
And another one for the heat wave.
“Colorado utilities seek temporary price hikes to cover sky-high costs from February deep freeze — Regulators will take testimony before deciding on proposed increases”
ignornant BS ... it normally gets REALLY cold in Colorado every winter for a few weeks, like minus 20 for several days and nights in a row, and this on the Front Range, and not just in the mountains ...
30-40 years ago this happened almost every winter, but the winters have been pretty mild compared to that for the last couple of decades, but in the long term, this past winter wasn’t exceptional at all, so if utilities were really “caught off guard” as they claim, then they haven’t been paying attention ...
the irony of course is that these utilities are all now probably being run by government “educated” fools worried about long term so-called “climate change”, yet are actually so short sighted that they can’t even view trends over the previous few decades, and this in a business where it’s crucial to anticipate and provide for energy needs that are guaranteed to fluctuate from year to year and decade to decade, sometimes wildly, meaning that energy needs themselves are guaranteed to sometimes wildly fluctuate over the decades, and that SHOULD be planned for!
Then it will be price hikes to cover the “unprecedented” hot summer days, because climate change.