anonymous wrote:
Ah, a tale of straw into gold. The Brothers Grimm would be proud.

Iow, if you don't choose to believe it, it has to be a fairy tale. Which
is just another way of saying "don't bother with facts, your mind is
made up."

Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

anonymous wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:38:27 GMT, Peggie Hall said:


Iow, if you don't choose to believe it, it has to be a fairy tale.

sigh I've never had much success trying to persuade those flat earth
people of the error of their ways either. g

So you do know all about electric co-ops?

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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:04:09 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:


Agreed! There would be no electricity between Macon and Albany GA if it
were not for the co-ops.


Yup and no freezers on the front porch.

Or clothes washers on the back porch.

My grandparents' farm in the middle of nowhere Alabama didn't have
electricity until TVA finally ran lines sometime after my mother
graduated from high school in 1934. It was the 50's before they had a
phone. They've both been gone a long time, and the farm was sold years
ago...but I don't THINK there's any cable TV there yet.

When I was a little girl Grandma had a washer, but didn't have a water
heater or a dryer. So water was heated over a wood fire in a big cast
iron pot, ladled into buckets and carried to the washer--on the back
porch, which made laundry considerably more of a challenge than it is
today 'cuz water had to be carried for both the wash and rinse cycles.
But that was a lot easier than doing the laundry in the cast iron
pot...which is what she had to do before TVA made it possible to buy the
washer.

And we think we have something to complain about if a storm takes out
the power for a couple of days!


Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

http://www.nreca.org/
http://www.unitedelectric.org/
http://www.ravallielectric.com/
http://www.clayelectric.com/
http://www.nvec.org/
http://www.matanuska.com/
http://www.laurenselectric.com/
http://www.aeci.org/index.html
http://www.blueridgenet.com/

Here is a list of CO-OPS May be you should start with the mission statement,
then go to history, then the annual meeting or just spouting off about the
how flat the world is.

Jack
"anonymous" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:38:27 GMT, Peggie Hall said:

Iow, if you don't choose to believe it, it has to be a fairy tale.
sigh I've never had much success trying to persuade those flat earth
people of the error of their ways either. g

Yea, yea Pegg. And I walked to school 20 miles every day. Up hill
both ways! In the snow!


Doug

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
...


WaIIy wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:04:09 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:


Agreed! There would be no electricity between Macon and Albany GA if it
were not for the co-ops.


Yup and no freezers on the front porch.

Or clothes washers on the back porch.

My grandparents' farm in the middle of nowhere Alabama didn't have
electricity until TVA finally ran lines sometime after my mother
graduated from high school in 1934. It was the 50's before they had a
phone. They've both been gone a long time, and the farm was sold years
ago...but I don't THINK there's any cable TV there yet.

When I was a little girl Grandma had a washer, but didn't have a water
heater or a dryer. So water was heated over a wood fire in a big cast
iron pot, ladled into buckets and carried to the washer--on the back
porch, which made laundry considerably more of a challenge than it is
today 'cuz water had to be carried for both the wash and rinse cycles.
But that was a lot easier than doing the laundry in the cast iron
pot...which is what she had to do before TVA made it possible to buy the
washer.

And we think we have something to complain about if a storm takes out
the power for a couple of days!


Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

No, he just adds $$$ to slip rates. Very fair. It costs $$$ to run a
marina even if they offer no services.

Doug

"WaIIy" wrote in message
...
On 2 Oct 2003 15:47:07 -0500, anonymous wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:09:14 -0400, Vito said:

How that equates to charging
non-users instead of users escapes me.

Your frame of reference is too narrow. What Peggy was talking about was
charging boats that use electricity at cost. But one cost of any business
is
profit. If the marina operator doesn't make a profit he doesn't operate a
marina. If the price he charges for electricity to some is limited, he
has
to make his profit by charging everybody more for something else. Hence
the
effect is that everybody gets charged for the profit element that would
have
come from the electrical usage charge if it weren't limited.

This is bizarre logic.

I guess if he doesn't sell gas, spark plugs, air, ice or whatever, he
needs to just add $$$ to everything else until an arbitrary profit is
obtained.

Oh...phhhbbbttt!

Doug Dotson wrote:
Yea, yea Pegg. And I walked to school 20 miles every day. Up hill
both ways! In the snow!


Doug

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
...


WaIIy wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:04:09 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Agreed! There would be no electricity between Macon and Albany GA if it
were not for the co-ops.


Yup and no freezers on the front porch.

Or clothes washers on the back porch.

My grandparents' farm in the middle of nowhere Alabama didn't have
electricity until TVA finally ran lines sometime after my mother
graduated from high school in 1934. It was the 50's before they had a
phone. They've both been gone a long time, and the farm was sold years
ago...but I don't THINK there's any cable TV there yet.

When I was a little girl Grandma had a washer, but didn't have a water
heater or a dryer. So water was heated over a wood fire in a big cast
iron pot, ladled into buckets and carried to the washer--on the back
porch, which made laundry considerably more of a challenge than it is
today 'cuz water had to be carried for both the wash and rinse cycles.
But that was a lot easier than doing the laundry in the cast iron
pot...which is what she had to do before TVA made it possible to buy the
washer.

And we think we have something to complain about if a storm takes out
the power for a couple of days!


Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html






--
Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

WaIIy wrote:
It's pretty cool that you were able to experience your grandparent's
place.
You're fortunate.

I think so too. :-)


Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

Haha! Ever read "The Devil's Dictionary"? Under "advice" it says: "Asking
for someone's approval of a course of action you've already decided upon."

"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
...
anonymous wrote:
Ah, a tale of straw into gold. The Brothers Grimm would be proud.

Iow, if you don't choose to believe it, it has to be a fairy tale. Which
is just another way of saying "don't bother with facts, your mind is
made up."

Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

The only thing interesting and usful in this whole "Marina Question" string
is about the beer!! We bought it everywhere in FL and it's maybe $6 or $7 a
6 pack. I wish we had it in NC.mmmmmmmmmmmmmm beer!!!!

"Jere Lull" wrote in message
...
Doug Dotson wrote:

... ... ALERT, ALERT... Just picked up a case of KALIK at my local
liquor store. They have finally started importing to our area. Alot
cheaper
than the $35/case in Marsh Harbor! Life is good again! We carried 2 cases
all the way from Marsh Harbor to home last spring. Much easier this way!


???? HOW can it be cheaper in the US than in the islands where, I
believe, it's produced -- AND where there's a hefty tax on top of
shipping...????

Doug: Could you check on a bottle and see where yours was produced?
Could this be a "produced under authority of...." type of thing?

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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