That greasy POS didn't flush.
It's beginning to look like it's time for conservatives to move on from the Assistant Democrat Party.
Posted on 11/13/2022 12:03:11 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Utility bills for more than 150,000 customers in south-central Wisconsin are about to increase. Madison Gas and Electric is increasing rates by about 9% in January, which will result in customers paying about $8.20 more per month.
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved the price hike Thursday night while also approving MG&E’s request to purchase part of Alliant Energy’s West Riverside Energy Center natural gas plant in Beloit.
The move toward clean energy also includes a solar and wind farm. However, the cost of those initiatives has been increased by pandemic- and supply chain-related issues.
“This is going to be tough for everybody, but you have to have the fuel to keep the plants running and keep your house warm,” Commissioner Ellen Nowak said.
Higher natural gas prices nationwide in addition to problems with shipping coal are also causing utility prices to rise.
MG&E corporate communications manager Steve Schultz said the community will ultimately benefit from having clean, reliable energy, and it’s working to control those costs.
“MG&E is working to build a smarter, cleaner and more dynamic grid to better serve all of our customers now and into the future,” Schultz said. “A cleaner, smarter grid is part of our strategy for achieving our goal of net-zero carbon electricity by 2050.”
Electric hasn't gone up yet, but I'll use that additional 9% as a starting point for what our bill will be starting in 2023 for budgeting purposes.
Sorry, Brandon! I won't be adding ONE DIME to 'your' awful economy until you are GONE. Food & Gas; nothing more. Every home project or additional expense is officially on hold.
Rising prices mostly affect those who are not on the government plantation.
And yet, the state still elected Bony Beavers, unfortunately. Wisconsin still has her work cut out for her.
I would suggest that the GOP legisl00ture pass Florida-style election laws, and when Governor Beavers vetoes them, just cast him across the world on all available media as the Cheatin’ Democrat that he is.
Sure seems to be!
An excellent plan. We were hoping to get rid of RINO Robin Vos, but that didn’t go as planned. :(
My Jan 2021 electric bill total (including all fees, taxes, PCRF) was 10.63 cents/kwh and my latest electric bill was 15.38 cents/kwh - a 45% increase. My electric Co-op has not raised rates. It is all from the PCRF (power cost recovery item). We still have a lawsuit hanging over our rates resulting from the Feb 2021 Texas power disaster which is likely to be a significant cost increase for years.
Ungh. Vos and Mitch McConnell are probably par-tay-ing over Beavers’ win.
The GOP legislature passed election reform legislation 2x and Evers vetoed it each time. The only election reform relative to 2020 was done courtesy of the WI Supreme Court declaring drop boxes outside of election offices unconstitutional.
Natural disasters ain’t cheap! But you know what is MORE costly? The man-made disasters. I’m expecting many, many more in the next two years. :(
Holy sh*t (re: your propane bill)! Your ‘not one dime’ is excellent advice...been doing that for some time.
“The (WI) GOP legislature passed election reform legislation 2x and Evers vetoed it each time.”
Bump. We currently have 23 Blue Governors. None of those states will be doing a thing about election integrity. :(
Yep. You can see where that throws a monkey wrench into budgeting on a fixed income! Thanks again, Brandon!
And we do NOT over-heat our home. We both run hot, thankfully, so the thermostat is 65 during the day and 58 or 60 at night, depending upon how low the temps will go overnight. I watch it like a hawk. And now, more so than ever.
And we don’t have another option. No natural gas out here in the boonies, and electric heat would be even worse.
Only the first of many rate hikes coming. The reason that the increases in electricity have not come even faster is because these new rates have to be approved by the utilities commission, and they can be very slow-walking bureaucrats when the mood suits them. It will go up by little bits and drabs, but the inflation just keeps on compounding, as artificial scarcities continue to accumulate.
Wind and solar power are not viable sources of electrical energy. Fifteen years from now, the ghostly sentinels of the abandoned windmill towers will dot the landscape, because they are just too expensive to remove, intermingled with the huge scrap piles of the deteriorated panels from the solar farms, stripped from the plains and hillsides as the land is returned to higher and better use, for grazing or field crops.
Electricity will be too expensive for most home use. Goodbye, lighting and operation of appliances.
Maybe people can consult the Mother Earth News for ways to operate a homestead without electricity.
“Your ‘not one dime’ is excellent advice...been doing that for some time.”
I honed my skills from 2004-2012, too! ;)
The Texas power disaster of Feb 2021 was entirely caused by people in positions of power making bad decisions that are rate payer has to cover. It had little to do with the weather.
1. Unforced error of building expensive wind and solar generation that does not produce power during deep winter arctic fronts. Pushed by ERCOT and the Power Generating Companies to adhere to a left-wing agenda.
2. Not performing winterization of equipment cutting corners on good operational management and then having equipment fail solely because common and proper winterization steps were not taken. This is solely on the operating companies.
3. Regulating agency, ERCOT, failed completely in the oversight due to political appointees most of whom were from out of state and have political agendas and put Texas citizens energy needs last.
4. Governor Abbott failing to manage ERCOT.
The weather was simply the trigger for the failure. Had the above people simply performed their jobs satisfactorily, the weather would have been a non-event.
Oops! 2009-2017! (0bama’s Reign of Error)
My ex-boss moved to Wimbley, TX (sp?) from Wisconsin that year to be nearer to her Grandbabies. It was like she never left home. ;)
I get that magazine. We’re in the process of adding some back-up power to our farm.
$1975.00? For how many gallons?
That greasy POS didn't flush.
It's beginning to look like it's time for conservatives to move on from the Assistant Democrat Party.
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