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Utility Companies Shaft Consumers
Submitted by TheGothicWitch on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 11:49am.
Name: Jackson K. Grimes
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> Home Mailing Address: POB 2209
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> City: Elkton
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> State: MD
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> Zip Code: 21922
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> Telephone: (410) 398-2167
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> Your Letter
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> Letter or Feedback: Dear Editor:
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> Since customers were cutting back on the use of electricity by getting energy
> saving light bulbs, etc., the electric companies were losing money.
> Consequently, they invented multipliers, which are a mathematical concept used
> to take advantage of the customer. These multipliers are used at the option of
> electric companies, so when customers aren't using enough to produce the
> desired profit margin, they simply raise the multipliers, and get their money.
> The multipliers are so high now even people who use almost no electricity are
> saddled with a huge bill. Even worse, the pubic utilities‚ commissions have
> been no help whatsoever.
>
> We might point out in Fascist nations utilities are provided at cost or given
> freely, as they‚re PUBLIC.The United Fascist Union proposes electric
> companies‚monopolies be broken, and public companies be created that would
> charge the public for the electric they actually use; instead of letting some
> fat-belly private profiteers‚ live the high life at the public‚s expense.The
> U. F. U.would revamp the system and make sure the Public Service Commissions
> of various Provinces work in public interest instead of working crooked deals
> with Executives of monopolies allowing them to exploit consumers.
>
> Vote Fascist 2008!
