Vic Smith wrote in
:

Yeah, I knew that, but forgot. Probably thinking about how I would do
it given natural gas is cheaper than electricity here. But even with
that, your electric units might be more practical here too.

--Vic



Electricity is political where I live. In Charleston, a corporation,
SCANA aka South Carolina Electric and Gas, supposedly controlled by the
state charges over 9c/KWh at the house, over 10c/KWh if you use over 750
KWh. 75 miles up the road, the City of Orangeburg, SC, same state,
couldn't get big corporations to wire the city way back when, so decided
to do it themselves like the water system.

http://www.orbgdpu.com/electric.htm
Click on RATES after seeing what they offer their customers.
They sell the SAME electricity, bought from the electrical grid as they
have no power plants except some HUGE gas turbine emergency plants, for
2.4c/KWh for the first 500 KWh...then the rate DROPS (ours rises,
dammit)...over that first 500 KWh, Orangeburg houses pay 1.9c/KWh....not
10.2c/KWh Charleston pays. No bogus "fuel cost adjustment charges",
either.

Here's our corporate thieves:
http://www.sceg.com/en/
buried down a few layers is:
http://www.sceg.com/NR/rdonlyres/523...0C0-4997-8608-
4AA8EA48A9BD/0/rate8.pdf
the electric rates.....dammit.

SCANA controls the state, not the other way around. I discovered this
after my father died and I inherited his mobile home in a trailer park in
Orangeburg. The city owned utility kept sending me bills for $35/month
so I ran up to see what was wrong with the air conditioning system I was
SURE I left running to prevent mildew inside. It was still running. $35
was "normal" for July in SC! The base charge was $6....no funny charges
noone can explain, no city franchies fees or other bogus charges to raise
the cost 35%....$6!

And they say the government shouldn't be in the electric business....

Larry
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Everyone paying under 2c/KWh for electricity raise your hand!