I’ve written emails to them before about such things. It obviously did a lot of good. AES doesn’t even answer their phones when you have an outage. I’m sure their board reads every email from a concerned customer.
I’m sure you understand they are a monopoly. They are the only source of electrical power for our area. It’s not like I can call them and cancel my service and hook up to their competitor. This isn’t cable vs satellite.
That’s why we have a whole house NG generator. My wife is on 24-hour oxygen therapy and needs electricity for her equipment. If every battery is fully charged and all her tanks are full, she could go about 9 hours without electricity. So, as long as the gas company doesn’t do stupid stuff like this, I guess she’ll survive, but wishing for people to freeze this winter is really pretty heartless on your part. Not everyone is as financially secure as we are. Generators are expensive. If you get your wish some will not only freeze, but possibly die when their medical equipment can’t be powered. Might want to think about that next time you consider making a statement like that.
“That’s why we have a whole house NG generator.”
Us, too. We installed it 25 months ago for two reasons:
1. A Canadian utility was making a play for Avista and the Canucks were fully committed to “green” which meant unreliable, high-priced power in the future. Avista’s mild “green” commitments were absolutely bad enough as it was. Unfortunately, Avista is our supplier of BOTH electricity and NG. But I figure NG will be more reliable and available longer than electricity (fingers crossed there).
2. We are surrounded by lots of trees and we get frequent outages after big storms. The longest outage around here has lasted ten days for the unlucky few. We want to be prepared for that.
Our energy supply system is in complete disarray and is a pending disaster because these idiots are pursuing a chimera.