New & improved Swamp

[Paule]

A 3-500 dollar electricity bills for the average consumer. Coupled with the doubled rates of the gas company. Followed by the increase of the water bill that, and get this, they didn’t charge us for seven months instead of the usual three, and then sent out double sizes bills already past due. Since January the cost of living has almost tripled for me and I have been doing every thing possible to save energy costs.

When is it going to stop?

I listen to Californians complain about how they pay less than we do for the electricity we sell them. Why are paying for electricity at all. Washington and Oregon are self sufficient with plenty to spare, even during a drought. Right now we have enough electricity to power the west coast in the form of geo-thermal and they won’t let us build the plants. Don’t give me it’s the environmentalists as these plants are 99% pollution free with the cleanest purest production of power next to hydro without the damage to the rivers and fish that the big dams do.

Right now it’s the big squeeze and once again it’s the common folk who feel it the most.Just as we reach any level of financial security they raise the bar and take it all away.