Have you been doing your bend over exercises to stay fit this holiday season? Was a case of vaseline on your Christmas wish list? If you are a Floridian, hopefully both apply. The Florida PSC (Public Screw Commission) in conjunction with the Tallahassee republicans just decided that (at a minimum) $191million will be taken out of your pockets and given to Florida Power & Light. Per tampabay/news/business/energy/fpl-gets-approval-to-charge-customers-for-fracking-exploration/2210731 “State regulators approved a proposal Thursday to allow Florida Power & Light, the states largest utility, to charge its customers for investment in natural gas production, an idea Duke Energy is reviewing. FPL won approval for natural gas drilling projects in southeastern Oklahoma with the ability to recover its investment under the fuel portion of its customers bills.” This came shortly after: per tampabay/news/business/energy/florida-regulators-meet-to-decide-future-of-energy-efficiency-and-solar/2207845 “State regulators on Tuesday approved proposals to gut Floridas energy-efficiency goals by more than 90 percent and to terminate solar rebate programs by the end of 2015, giving the investor-owned utilities virtually everything they wanted.” “ Meanwhile, Floridas utilities will go into the holidays with their biggest wishes this year, including billions of dollars in new power plants that will come online in the next decade. The PSC, for instance, approved Duke Energy for a $1.5 billion natural gas plant that the utility wanted to replace the shuttered Crystal River nuclear plant that broke during a botched upgrade and maintenance project as well as two coal units the company plans to retire.” So once again republicans take money from taxpayers pockets by increasing fees, the results being the same as a tax increase. BTW – The first article ends “To the critics, FPL and other utilities that pursue fracking investment should not involve customers. This is plain and simple national socialism in Florida, said Mark Cooper, a senior fellow for economic analysis at Vermont Law School. They have no risk. Why should ratepayers bear that risk?” So it looks like those who voted for these republican clowns voted for Socialism. Now thats funny.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:34:31 +0000
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