It's unfortunate that costs continue to rise for just about everything: food, gas, interest ratest for credit cards, clothing, etc, etc. now Empire Electric Company is talking about raising costs for Kansas and Missouri users. Several recent in the Joplin Globe articles are indicating that Empire Electric is seeking to increase the cost of electricty by 20% for Missouri users and 25% for Kansas users or $25/monthly for the average electricity user. The rationale behind this? To help cover the $5.2 million dollar expenses for recent changes in their system. The "system" changes hasn't been evaluated fully and no one really knows the actual systems they need to help financially cover.
Fortunately, more recent events. Looking at a more recent article it states:
" David Springe, consumer counsel for the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board, says the public should be aware when a hearing on the request is scheduled and turn out in force.
The Kansas Corporation Commission isn’t expected to act on the increase before next summer. "
In the last week there have been several public meetings with Kansas citizens to advocate on their behalf and show the financial detriment this would be on the average user.
Surprisingly, there lacks a commission in the state of Missouri that is currently working on our behalf to resist this increase in electricity prices. What can we do to help? I don't really know maybe form a commission to work on our behalf. It's sad to say we will see a significant increase in our bill only to not do anything about it.
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This does suck. I currently use Empire Electric, so lets hope that the prices don't go up for us. Hopefully everything stays the same.
ReplyDeleteWell its not going to stay the same. I mean that is the disadvange of having only one company that you can get utilitys from.
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