PV: One of the Reasons that I switched over to PV's for Home Power

["Justionsgramps" <justinsgramps@flashmail.com>]

One of the Reasons that I switched  over to  PV's  for  Home
Power...

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When is an Electric Power or Gas Increase, a Tax Increase?

On our ABC affillate  TV station,  (channel 13)  down here,  in
Houston, we have a consumers advocate named Marvin Zindler....  
he used to be a sheriffs deputy in the 60's, and when he left the 
Sheriffs department,  he  joined  TV channel  13.... you  would
see him and  the channel 13  cameras as  they go  out  with  the 
health department,  in search  of  dirty restaurants.... and when 
there was a senior citizen in need,  there he was on TV, visiting 
the offending company, to help the senior citizen out...

This was such a case last night, in which a senior citizen was
complaining to Marvin about her utility bills.... she receives a 
bit over $500 a month in Social Security, and out of that, she
has to pay for  her Electricity,  Gas,  phone,  and water... the
phone bill. wasn't too bad, and the water was reasonable, but
the power and gas took most of her check.... in fact  after all
the utilities were paid, she had only $24 left over for groceries,
medicines, clothes, and any other costs that crop up,  month
to month...

Well... last night Marvin was at the office  of  Reliant  Energy 
(which is both our electric power  and  natural gas provider)... 
and Marvin got into a shouting match with the Vice president
of Reliant energy, (on TV),  for Reliant's  4th  increase in the 
cost  of  electricity and  natural gas.... and  the  point  of  the 
shouting was that Reliant paid  300 million dollars to the City
of Houston, for the naming rights  of our new  (No Property 
Tax) stadium which is currently being  built....and right  after
this  payment  was  paid,  Reliant  implimented  the  first  of 
several Natural Gas and Electricity rate increases...

It  might  be  worth  mentioning,   that  Reliant  also  furnishes 
utility servies to parts of California,  and  Reliant's profits, last
year were up 700%...

It appears that the city may  have  been part  of this plan,  too....
the  City  had  allowed  power  and  electric  rates  to  quietly
increase, so that Reliant would have the extra cash to pay the
300 million dollars, (Naming Rights Money)  back  the  City  of 
Houston, so that the city could then use this 300 Million dollars
to fund the  'No Property Tax' stadium, so, in Effect, the people
would end up paying  for  the 'No Property Tax' Stadium.. with
the increase in their eletric power and natural gas bills...  How
sweet it must be for those Reliant Energy People...

It just doesn't seem right, to make some of our elderly citizens, 
pay most of their social security checks to fund a No Property
Tax (Reliant Energy) Stadium, and to make Reliant Energy and
their executives, very rich, in the process...

This is like a tax increase that is not called a tax increase....

G

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