lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL | Cost?
Figuring at $150/battery (conservative), probably more, just the batteries alone will set them back over $2.5M. That should be about a $1.00 raise per customer.
This is not including overtime, battery disposal, and other installation issues. |
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Raptor
Not a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
London, ON
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
 ·Bell Sympatico
| said by lordfly  :That should be about a $1.00 raise per customer. Don't worry, it'll show up under "battery recovery fee". So you'll still be on the $34.99 plan technically. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | LOL 
I would not be surprised.
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Sarasota, FL
clubs:
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When you think about it though, with the current state of our civil courts, $2.5M to replace them all is a small price to pay. If even one person gets a cut on their pinky from a piece of flying debris after one explodes, they'd be paying out 10 times that on the lawsuit.
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BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11
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said by Raptor :said by lordfly :That should be about a $1.00 raise per customer. Don't worry, it'll show up under "battery recovery fee". So you'll still be on the $34.99 plan technically. "Stored Power Cost Recovery Fee" sounds much vaguer and more likely to be used.  |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to Camelot One
Heh the lawyers alone would get $2.5M. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
·Cox HSI
| reply to Raptor
said by Raptor :Don't worry, it'll show up under "battery recovery fee". So you'll still be on the $34.99 plan technically. Negative. They would never be so clear. It would be something like "Public safety mandate recovery fee" or "Liability offset cost recovery fee" or something to make it look like it's another Government fee or tax.
Personally, I think it should come right out of the stock dividends... but that's me.
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Raptor
Not a Dumptruck
join:2001-10-21
London, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
·Bell Sympatico
| said by KrK :Personally, I think it should come right out of the stock dividends... but that's me. You'll never be a CEO with such backwards thinking |
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