Yesterday's news contained information that the monopoly Nevada Power is to increase our power costs by 11.5% commencing June 1, 2007.
The T.V. news (so-called) that L.E. Fant watched included a statement from Nevada Power's parent company that the increase is due to them building new generator stations which results in power costing less than now.
L.E. Fant infers from this that we are paying for capital equipment (for Nevada Power) who will use the equipment to produce power at less cost because we are buying it the equipment to produce the power. The net result to us appears that we pay more for supposedly less expensive power. This all, apparently, made perfect sense to the "hard hitting" reporters who gave us this joyous news and perhaps the legendary "I Team" who are probably still looking for Nevada's missing wild horses. It does not made good sense to L.E. Fant however.
We should all take an interest in this situation. We should all investigate the P.U.C. and its members. We should write or otherwise communicate with each member individually, indicate our concern and demand detailed explanation of this matter. A letter to Nevada Power (and its parent company) saying "enough all ready" should also be written and dispatched.
Whilst not a communist L.E. Fant can clearly see that our needs may be better served by formation of a cooperative for access to power. If we are paying for the capital equipment why should it not be ours?
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1 comment:
Lefant you are right on on this one. I heard this story on tv and felt the same.
Im not sure how much good it would do to write to NP and tell them enough, as it would seem similarly useless to writing to THE administration (you know who I mean).
I like the idea of a cooperative. Follow up on this story if it so behooves you. I think that you could get traction on this.
Perhaps we could have a meeting of interested persons at The Frontier.
Seriously I do like the coop idea. Whats next to do?
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