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Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:48 am to LNCHBOX
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It's not a perfect system, but do you really expect any company to just eat all of those costs?
I think they should be forced to have insurance for that like the rest of us.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:49 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I could understand a small admin fee of $25 or something. Not $115. With two places right now, my power bill is less than $100 total.
All of this shite is regulated, as I've already said. Any capital project that is funded by these fees is either a reimbursement or has a capped rate of return.
Per usual, you don't know what the frick you are talking about. If the fee was $25, the energy company would be paying billions to provide you power. Customers reimbursing those projects is exponentially cheaper for them in the long run than it being baked into their kw/hour price.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:49 am to LNCHBOX
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Well when your area gets hit with a major natural disaster and a lot of your provider's infrastructure needs to be rebuilt ASAP, perhaps you will understand.
That's another thing.
Why aren't these fees going towards developing more storm-resistant infrastructure?
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:49 am to JDPndahizzy
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I think they should be forced to have insurance for that like the rest of us.
And you think their insurance costs don't go up after that, and that cost is then passed on? You're going to pay part of it one way or the other.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:50 am to LNCHBOX
hmmm very strange. in the winter mine is like 80 bucks.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:50 am to Areddishfish
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When I was in college…we wouldn't be at the apartment for the summer…
I got crazy Entergy bills during my summers away while at LSU. Complained to PSC and got bill credits for quite some time.
Come to TX where it is deregulated and you have the “Power to Choose” market based prices. Won’t like that either…makes me appreciate the old co-ops
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:50 am to LNCHBOX
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Well when your area gets hit with a major natural disaster and a lot of your provider's infrastructure needs to be rebuilt ASAP, perhaps you will understand.
Happens frequently. We have hydro, and the lines get knocked out by avalanche every winter.
Are you under the impression that Texas and La are special in this regard?
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:50 am to dewster
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Why aren't these fees going towards developing more storm-resistant infrastructure?
You have any idea how expensive running all this stuff underground would be? You think people are bitching about the fees now
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:50 am to dewster
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Why aren't these fees going towards developing more storm-resistant infrastructure?
I imagine you would complain about that cost, too.
More resilient, means much more expensive, and still not 100% indestructible.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:51 am to dewster
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They have their snout AND all four hooves in the trough apparently.
Those kickbacks and lobbyist fees aren't cheap, baw.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:51 am to LNCHBOX
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You're going to pay part of it one way or the other
True words!
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:51 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Happens frequently
You frequently have Ida level devastation? GTFO
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:52 am to goofball
You can thank the City of New Orleans for most of those fees.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:53 am to Dicky
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Next they should try not watching Netflix for a month and see how that bill comes back.
Except Netflix isn’t on a per use price structure.
Your analogy is bad and you should feel bad
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:53 am to LNCHBOX
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You frequently have Ida level devastation? GTFO
He's decided his talking points and is now being educated on regulated utilities. The ad hominems are about 3 posts away.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:54 am to Blutarsky
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More resilient, means much more expensive, and still not 100% indestructible.
What Entergy has is already incredibly expensive to customers, but still unreliable as hell. So this is clearly not working. All of those fees are not translating to better quality service and system reliability.
Even minor weather events knock out our electricity for hours. The Louisiana state flag may as well feature a portable gas generator since it's a requirement for most homes out here.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:54 am to fr33manator
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Except Netflix isn’t on a per use price structure.
Your analogy is bad and you should feel bad
Yours and most of these posters knowledge on regulated utilities is bad and you should feel bad.
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:55 am to LNCHBOX
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You have any idea how expensive running all this stuff underground would be? You think people are bitching about the fees now
I know someone who is constantly bitching about their outages in their neighborhood. It’s back-lot OH lines throughout but some neighbors block access to trim the trees around the lines.
This leads to constant outages during storms.
He was asked to see if the utility could transition everything underground and each homeowner would put up $5K each.
$5K each wouldn’t cover 10% of the costs.
And if he had neighbors bitching about trees being cut, imagine the outrage when contractors are running underground cables and digging up everyone’s yard.
This post was edited on 7/12/22 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 7/12/22 at 9:58 am to dewster
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Why aren't these fees going towards developing more storm-resistant infrastructure?
Entergy has found that it's easier to invest all of the revenue from those excessive fees in places other than their own network.
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