Yeah, rub it in why dontchya!

--Mike

"Animal05" wrote in message
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Mike wrote:

I just paid 2.69... we're always screwed in CA with the supposed "special
formulation" only required here.

$1.95 at my corner station



Oh yeah, my last utility bill... $455. Yup, de-regulation has worked
wonders here.

NG bill for Dec / 3000 s.f. house with two furnaces was $169


--Mike

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:37:13 -0500, "JimH"
wrote:


......going down. Under $2/gallon on the street at some places here.

Election time must be coming up...........oops..........that happened
last
November. ;-)

For Chuck:......gasoline - boats.........gasoline - tow vehicles. Just
a
preemptive strike to keep the head sheriff from interrogating me. ;-)


You obviously don't live in Connecticut.

$2.49 and they act like they are doing us a favor.



You see, here in the Nutcase....er, Nutmeg State, the Democrats who
control the Legislature came up with this brilliant program - it's
called Zone Pricing Policy. It was intended to level out the price of
gasoline across the state so that the areas with higher income levels
paid more than those with lower income levels.

Of course what happened was exactly the opposite. Zone Pricing means
that they can sock it to the rural parts of the state and keep the gas
prices in the cities cheap. Hartford gas is about .11/15¢ cheaper for
example and it's pretty much the same in other cities in the state.
Move out of the city, bend over.

And now that it's entrenched, it can't be changed because it's a money
maker - um, I'm sorry - REVENUE ENHANCER which brings in tons of taxes
for the treasury. And it makes money for the companies who retail the
gas along with the distributors. So it can't be changed.

This is the same bunch of bozos who figured that electricity would be
cheaper if the Utility companies divested their power generating
plants and purchased their energy on the open market passing the
savings along to the customer. This brilliant stroke of genius caused
a 50/75% increase in electricity rates in the past two years because
they never figured that the generators of power would have to make
money also.

California did it and got screwed? Oh, well we're smarter than that -
won't happen here.

Dumbasses. Oh and get this. The latest is that the Legislature, 98%
Democrats, is now working towards allowing the Utility companies to
purchase back the generation plants they just sold - at a premium of
course financed by....

Wait for it...

Wait for it....

Tax subsidies to the Utility companies!!! Including state bonding to
improve the plants!!!

Brilliant!!!

Unfortunately, it won't make the rates go down because...um...well...
er...becasue. BUT, they won't go up in the future.

We think.

Maybe.

Like hell they won't.