pandora
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|  [INFO] CL&P gets a rate increase
CL&P claims it needs more money to maintain the electrical delivery system its already got. The fools who are going to pay for this joke are CL&P customers. We will see this increase starting February 1.
Story here - »www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/···98.story
State regulators on Monday gave final approval for higher electricity rates for Connecticut's largest utility, but less than what it had sought.
The Department of Public Utility Control approved a 1.9 percent rate increase for Connecticut Light & Power, or $77.8 million in additional revenue this year and $20.1 million in 2009.
CL&P, which serves about 1.2 million customers, sought a 4.6 percent increase, state regulators said.
The increase for most commercial and industrial customers will be about 1 percent and the average residential customer will be billed about 2.85 percent more, according to state regulators.
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orion940
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Windsor, CT | They need to start using energy star equipment.
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Just gets better every day 'round here, dunnit?
Maybe the Gov will do another one of her public interest commercials to tell us to tie our shoe laces so we don't trip.
That will make new business want to set up shop here.
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| said by Grumpy  :Just gets better every day 'round here, dunnit? Maybe the Gov will do another one of her public interest commercials to tell us to tie our shoe laces so we don't trip. That will make new business want to set up shop here. Between approving this and her refusal to consider giving back some of the $1,000,000,000+ budget surplus to us taxpayers sure makes me want to hang around...
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orion940
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Windsor, CT | reply to pandora
Did they break out whether this is the charges for lectrizity or delivery?
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Grumpy
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We need a new state slogan:
How about
"This is the state where we're going to make stuff so people have jobs!"
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pandora
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said by orion940 :Did they break out whether this is the charges for lectrizity or delivery? It's an increase in the delivery charge. To add about 3% on our electric bills starting February 1. It must be nice to work at management in CL&P you just ask for a rate increase and the board Ms. Rell sets up gives you most of what you want.
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Glenn
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said by Grumpy :We need a new state slogan: How about "This is the state where we're going to make stuff so people have jobs!" Sorry - must be some angel dust in my coffee We need to modify your best quote:
"Last one out of the state please turn off of the lights."
to
"Last one out of the state, please turn off the lights. Oh wait, they're already off. Due to high taxes, a myriad of expensive "social" programs, and a high cost of living, no one could afford to keep them on...."
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What gets me is that they keep hiking the prices of everything in this state, and then they wonder why people are bailing out of it like they are. Um, maybe because no one can afford to live here???? 
Leaving this overpriced state is sounding better & better to me everyday. |
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said by pandora :It's an increase in the delivery charge. To add about 3% on our electric bills starting February 1. It must be nice to work at management in CL&P you just ask for a rate increase and the board Ms. Rell sets up gives you most of what you want. How smart of them to put it in delivery vs generation. They got the cream of the crop steering that ship. I think another 3% for the boys with the geek hats on is in order.
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| said by orion940 : I think another 3% for the boys with the geek hats on is in order. O. as opposed to the boys with the foil hats?  |
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THis is just peachy news. I may actually see the monthly bill top $500 in 2008. WHat a thrill. |
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You could always come to a lot of the other states with lower income tax or none at all. But if you do, be ready for a shock. Places like here in TN treat the indigent, poor, and disabled like worse than cattle. Cities look HORRIBLE with streets lined with so many eyesore signs it makes your head spin, it's even harder to drive from it all. Crime is significantly higher in states like ours here.
You think employment is bad? Come here. Tennessee has one of the highest foreclosure and bankruptcy rates nationwide. Minimum wage is lower here. Food is taxed at 9%, everything else at at least 10%. Police harrass and jail people who are minding their own business, just drive through a town you don't live in, trust me, good chance you will get pulled over, especially if you are a minority person.
Be ready to see more crack heads and meth addicts than ever.
I understand how expenive it is to live up there in CT, but you all have it MUCH better up there than most of the rest of the nation. Crime is less in New England, in fact, signifcantly less. Those so called social programs help keep many from getting in trouble and committing crimes otherwise.
Grocery stores here are HORRID. Our nearest store in about 40 minutes away from here, driving fast, and is only the size of a small city's post office (well, slightly larger, but not much). Food? Most produce, even at places like Walmart and even Kroger's (the only good grocery store, about an hour away) is old and wilted, and forget looking for things like good fresh herbs.
You won't find things like Capicola or Prosciutto here at the deli, nope, nowhere, zip, nada. Pizza? The best place around here is an hour away and it is called CiCi's, ever heard of them? You have places like Pepe's there!
Like culture, the arts, shows, and other assorted distractions? You'll have to drive all the way to a city like Nashville and Nashville ain't all it's made up to be, in fact, Austin is a MUCH neater, more fun town.
Yes, taxes might be too high for the lower middle class, but the point isn't if taxes are high, but if you are getting your value for your taxes, and believe me, things are better run up there. Government people seem to be MORE corrupt here and there is a very hard attitude towards the common man. There are a LOT less rich here and very few upper middle class folks, and the rest of us are treated like common criminals by the system.
Don't you dare fall on hard times in a place like Tennessee, you won't find any help or way to climb back up.
Things are expensive in CT because it is a much more enlightned, sophisticated, cultured place than much of the rest of the USA. Things are more expensive because you get the best quality stuff up there. You get produce almost as good as that bought in California where much of it is grown!
You can talk all you want about wanting to leave that place, but I yearn to move back there.
And don't get me started on the brutal summers down south. At this point in my life I'll take bitter winters over brutal summers with no AC. Few folks in my town can afford AC, including me, and we have 100 degree days frequently, and it stays in the 90's often deep into the night.
Like variety of products and services? Most towns here don't even have cable tv! I am VERY lucky to have DSL, few folks have it, the telco COs are too far and spread between.
Like safety? Well, we DO get occasional snow, and lots of days are icy with sleet or freezing rain. Do they do anything to the streets for it? No.
Ever seen the houses down here? Take a look sometimes and the words "Southern Charm" might fleet away from your mind. I swear 1/2 of the folks around here live in dirty old trailers.
Things are GOOD in CT. Believe it or not, you all make me hurt inside seeing you complain. I don't think you know how good you really have it.
You know why we don't have a state income tax here? Because people here are so poor, there are so few jobs and the pay is so horrible that there is no way the state could make enough off of a state income tax, instead they tax the poor more harshly with things like a 9% food tax. FOOD!
Police here constantly profile and go after drivers in older cars and let the lucky few with nice, expensive new cars alone. Status is everything here. And if you aren't white, expect to end up in jail for something stupid sooner or later.
I'll trade places with any of you any day!
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| said by signmeuptoo : Pizza? The best place around here is an hour away and it is called CiCi's, ever heard of them? Welcome to Cici's!!! The world's largest pizza trough.
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| It's not bad, good actually, but it ain't a Connecticut Pizza house.
Basically, I am just saying to have some perspective. North Easterners live at around the highest standard of living in the state with some of the best accoutrement's. Only other places similar in quality are also outrageously expensive, such as the Bay Area, most of Hawaii, and parts of the northwest coast. LA is also expensive but full of negatives, high gang crime for instance.
The truth is, life in CT is good, I am sad that some people don't realize how good their lives are!
Try living where things cost 4 times as much as CT, such as computers, but income is 1/100th or less of the same (people make about $3.00 a day IF they can find a job, and there are very few jobs. Folks eat rice for three meals a day and live in fear of corrupt drug pushing cops that invade innocent people's homes to plant "evidence" so that they can extort money from these poor people or they go to jail for life. The few jobs there are are only for people under 25.
Life is good in CT. Instead of complaining about rates, get more involved in your government and demand MORE out of your government.
Personally, I'd give 1/2 my income in taxes if I got what I'd like to see from it: REAL national security. Fully supplied first responders. Health care for all, so that people don't have to become so ill or damaged that they finally are allowed care and lose limbs. Nor more campaign finance corruption (candidates cannot raise ANY money, campaigns are solely paid for by a merit system and taxes of very limited amount, and networks are REQUIRED to donate free air time (let's face it, Hollywood and the large media conglomerates are some of the richest industry folks out there). A much more ready military with decent equipment to protect them for a change. National works projects repairing or rebuilding all of the horribly dangerous bridges and highways nationwide, to GERMAN standards (The Germans pour their concrete more than twice as thick as we do and maintenance is rare compared to our highways).
I could go on, the point is, things cost money. The good life costs money. Caring for those that live in bad times costs money and if you want to be hard hearted and say tough luck to them, be ready to get murdered, held up, or burglarized. The Northeast takes better care of the people, if you have never lived on the street as I have, if you have never gone nearly a month without food and if you never almost died from severe illness brought on by homelessness and a TOTAL lack of available shelter, then I don't expect you to have an understanding. But if a great depression comes, a LOT of heard hearted people who today want to kill off taxes heavily and cut off assistance to others, well, those hard hearted people will themselves see what it is like, and be begging God (even if they don't believe in Him) and when their stomach growls after going a week with no food, then they will know.
Our national electrical grid is in BAD shape. We have way too few power plants. The condition of the power lines and right of ways is poor in many areas. We lack enough personnel. But instead of ruing high rates, those who can afford $400,000 and up homes should be doing the right thing: installing alternative energy to their homes and forgoing giant screen TVs for the time being.
I will never be able to buy a home. I may never own a new or even late model car. So for me, I am a little hurt to see such complaining when I know that the people doing it live the good life and have no idea how good their lives are! It angers me a little.
I went to college, I paid my dues. In fact, I worked full time from the age of 14! My parent stole my savings for school. I dropped out because from 15 I didn't have a stable home: Much of my time was homeless, yet I even worked when I could. I pulled myself up and got a college degree and made a big difference where I worked, until a very crooked pair of men blackballed me in revenge, it is a long story, but I was doing the right thing. Now I will never work in my trade again and I still have a few thousand in college debt I must pay. On top of this I am disabled. Do you hear me complaining? I have in the past and what it got me was a LOT of really mean responses, a lot of hurtful comments.
Complaining is easy. Going out there and working for change is hard, but if we don't all do it, then things will get worse. Even while I was most recently homeless I did volunteer work. How many of you complaining do volunteer work? Want lower taxes and rates? Do things to improve stuff.
Get mad at me if you want, but I am speaking from the bottom of my heart. By the way: We are eating rice for our meals right now yet I recently donated money. I am trying to make a difference even though I am disabled.
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On rate increase: just got my bill. I show two rates; one from about Jan 4 forward, one for before (my bill is for 50 days this time, dunno why.) There was more than just one rate change; it seems all of the following was raised:
- Generation charge, from .116060 to .11780
- Tranmission Charge, from .00732 to .00770
- Competitive TRansition Assessment (WTF?), from .01041 to .01055
- Combined Benefits Charge, from .00296 to .00507
- Two stayed the same, the kWh Charge and FMCC Delivery Charge.
- Looks like the Customer Service Charge stayed the same, at $9.99 per 30 days.
All told, the rate per kWh went from .166704 to .171074 per kWh, a 2.6% increase. Based on the article linked above, this isn't even that increase in effect yet...
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Sky King
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Naugatuck, CT | reply to pandora
There are alternatives..such as Direct Energy, which I switched to about 2 mo. ago. There are others too..such as Levco. It saves me a few books a month. My friends went down around 25.00 per month when he switched to Direct Energy. |
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Mine dropped with Direct Energy. I was running 130-140, I'm down to 115. It works for me.
CL&P is just too greedy. They revamped the bonus money for the executives into maintenance fees or some S like that. Fooled me.
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