Electric bill

[standupright]

Just got my electric bill. I used $32 in electricity. After fees, assesments, items, gouging, and taxes.....my total due is $84. $50 in crap. unbelievable.


how many of you are getting the rear end job from the utility company?

[fenderphil]

i'll trade ya bills...

[standupright]

Originally Posted by fenderphil

i'll trade ya bills...

i wait until after nine to do dishes and laundry. the only thing that runs during the day right now is the computer, water heater, sometimes the tv. that's it. no heat. no ac.

[Mike N]

I love the "delivery charge" they tack on. I don't remember seeing their truck back into my driveway to drop off my electricity.

[TrooperFarva]

My favorite was when ConEd upped the rates before summer one year. That summer wasn't very hot, so people used their air conditioners less than expected, and thus, power consumption was lower than projected. ConEd then decided to charge their customers an Extra Capacity fee. In essence, they were actually charging customers for not using power.

There was a lot of outrage at the time, so they put out a press release saying that it's a standard policy, and that also, if ever the situation were to arise that demand exceeded capacity, the fee would be reversed, and peoples bills would actually go down. Of course, in actuality, when demand exceeds capacity, NYC gets rolling blackouts, and nobody sees any kind of refund.

Legal monopolies. They're something.

[cassanova]

Progress energy just recently increased their rates by 30% down here. Fortunately, I don't use them.

Nonetheless, my power company is garbage. We constantly have power outages, sometimes for just a split second but usually for a few hours. I never see a meter man check the meter on the outside of the house and yet the bill always seems to go up never down.

[hover]

You'd swear they tack on their cellphone bills or dry cleaning to the fees. Rat bastehds.