They are trying to raise natural gas rates here. They are compaining about lost income because we have had a couple of warm winters. The next time we have one with below zero days, they sure won't lower the rates.
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If that isn't a monopoly, nothing is. Our water company is also doing this same thing because their pipes all need repairs and they didn't save enough money during the good times. Their requested increase is 30%!
The city owns the water company here. They just raised rates, they are not required to ask.
We have the California Public Utilities Commission...yet another way to add unnecessary politicians to a broke state.
We have had water rates go up as well. Once like Rusty's gas, we were getting so much rain and people were conserving water use like they ask, the revenue was not enough to pump and filter the CAP water.
But go over to So Cal and people flood their yards so they can grow grass. They should be cut off.
But go over to So Cal and people flood their yards so they can grow grass. They should be cut off.
Our city insisted that when they bought the water system that rates would not go up, they have more than tripled since then.
Same here, we have our own well. But the sewer rates keep jumping. Our bill has more than doubled in the last year.
Daris
Daris
Well, our gas has once again climbed and is now almost $4.50 a gallon. When is that guy in the White House going to do something for the working class for once in his tenure?
Like Bush did?
Presidents cannot control the price of fuel.The oil companies will always have some excuse, supply and demand high, if not that, lack of refining capacity or the refineries need maintenance, or it is those nasty futures markets. Pick one.
Beano will control gas.
We could do what other presidents have done. Open up the Alaskan Reserve and flood the market, until the Saudi Princes have a hard time paying for their 24K Lambo's.
Cushing, OK is already about to burst at the seams. The price is increasing because the oil companies want it to.
It is usually the speculators buying futures that run up the price. And there is no legal way to stop them.
Nick
In Remembrance
Just went up another $.10 a gallon here .
They said a lot of Sh*t here , But the truth is they are down 7% in profits from last year . They only made 20 Billion .
You can take a stick and put it where the sun don't shine in everyone in Washington . This is Corporate America .
They said a lot of Sh*t here , But the truth is they are down 7% in profits from last year . They only made 20 Billion .
You can take a stick and put it where the sun don't shine in everyone in Washington . This is Corporate America
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I understand there are no quick fixes, but there was suppose to be an official inquiry by Congress as to who was to blame for the gas spike which occurred last summer. What ever happened to this official inquiry?
I watched it. The big fellas stone walled the congressional committee. After they flew in on their corporate Gulfstream IV's they claimed all the make is 5 cents a gallon after overhead.
Don't have the numbers on hand but lets say Exxon makes 10 Billion dollars in profit.....thats allot of nickels.
