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1 posted on 03/08/2007 8:05:15 AM PST by Abathar
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The business is free to refuse to accept the payment....and I hope they do.


2 posted on 03/08/2007 8:06:29 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (I hate Bill Maher.)
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Sorry Robert, but you're an idiot.


3 posted on 03/08/2007 8:07:00 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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Fine. But I would make him come in and count them out for me.


5 posted on 03/08/2007 8:07:51 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Bobby boy....have you checked the price of fuel oil lately or gasoline????

they utilities have the same problem...


7 posted on 03/08/2007 8:09:06 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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A nice gesture on his part and I fully understand his frustration, but it won't mean jack to Ameren or any other utility company, nor will it change anything.


9 posted on 03/08/2007 8:09:29 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Just screwin' with ya)
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But Hancock Kramer said that if he can cause Ameren Todd Gack a little inconvenience, it's worth it to him.
11 posted on 03/08/2007 8:10:12 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 (Duncan Hunter in '08!)
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My bill (gas and electric) always doubles in the winter. I've never been able to figure out why.


12 posted on 03/08/2007 8:10:15 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
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Companies like that routinely have a policy of not accepting cash payments sent by the mail. It will cost them $50 to return it to him, though!


13 posted on 03/08/2007 8:11:11 AM PST by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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I wonder if they can charge him return postage?


20 posted on 03/08/2007 8:15:29 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Let me get this right, this guy is going through all the trouble of getting all those pennies, packaging and sending all those those pennies to express his ourage about his bill of $526.62 and now his bill will be $576.62?

Yeah, that'll teach 'em.
24 posted on 03/08/2007 8:17:33 AM PST by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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The value of copper has sky-rocketed. Witness the theft of electrical cables.

He might make a profit if he melted them down...

28 posted on 03/08/2007 8:19:44 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("There are no stupid questions. There are, however, many inquisitive idiots." - unknown)
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If you don't like you high electric bills, try doing something constructive about it. Try insulation, new windows, upgrade old equipment, etc.

Stop whining.


31 posted on 03/08/2007 8:21:15 AM PST by Politicalmom ("Always vote for principle...and your vote is never lost."-John Quincy Adams)
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He needs a hobby.


33 posted on 03/08/2007 8:21:54 AM PST by SIDENET (Now selling carbon offsets. Get some today!)
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There is something phony baloney about this story.

According to Wikipedia, one penny weighs 2.35 grams

2.35 grams * 52 662 = 123.7557 kilograms

That is 272.8 pounds of pennies! Postal rates must be lower than I thought if he can mail 270+ pounds for just $50. I even tried the online postage calculator on the USPS website. When I entered 273 pounds, I got an error message that it exceeds the 70 pound limit.

42 posted on 03/08/2007 8:27:26 AM PST by 6SJ7
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The pennies are money. If the company refuses his payment he does not owe anything any more. Enforcing that will be difficult. It's only government agencies that have the unmitigated arrogance to dictate how a person can pay his/her taxes.


43 posted on 03/08/2007 8:27:32 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Better to spend some of that extra money on carbon offsets. I just happen to have some for sale.


44 posted on 03/08/2007 8:28:29 AM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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It's not the utility's fault that prices have gone up so much. He would be better off sending bags of cow dung to the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and NRDC.


47 posted on 03/08/2007 8:31:02 AM PST by montag813
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I wonder what his house is like. That sounds like a pretty steep bill.


48 posted on 03/08/2007 8:34:17 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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200% Holy Cow!

Did he use 200% more energy? His rate went up 200%??? Who else got a 200% increase? There must be more than one ticked off person.

jw


56 posted on 03/08/2007 8:44:28 AM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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This guy is an amateur compared to Algore. That's nothing for a monthly electric bill.
76 posted on 03/08/2007 9:06:43 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (This tag line has no carbon credit offsets for sale.)
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