Re: electric rates

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:22:07 GMT, "JohnR66" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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At least in Maryland, electric rates go up in June between 40 and 80%,
when the caps come off, because of deregulation. This sounds like it
applies to the whole country, but I don't know.

Here in Oheeho, I got a note from the utility saying how long rates were
fixed and to be getting ready fo you know what...
I currently pay 10 cents per kwh.
John

Tuns out Maryland BGE has had price caps for six years, and
electricity has gone up 72% in that time, so there will be a 72%
increase.

Which I think they said would average 60 or 64 dollars a month!!!.
Could that be right That would mean the average person pays more than
100 dollars a month now. I really should look at my bill. I can't
believe it is that high,

WBAL news said that gas, oil, and gasoline has gone up 130 to 160
percent during the same time, I forget the exact numbers but
something like that.. Still, I assume they will eventually let BGE
get back any money it has lost over the 6 years by not charging market
rates.

BTW, BGE says nothing about this I could find on its webpage, and the
bill payment part of the webpage is the worst I've ever seen.**
Maybe that's because the rates are so low and they don't spend any
money on their on-line data processing department!

**Biggest example. The "Pay my bill" url isn't clear about it, but it
says what one's bill was the last time a bill was issued. If you pay
online, that has no effect on the amount that shows. So if you're not
sure that the payment went through, and you check back to see if the
money owed has gone down, it never will. There isn't even a text
warning about this.

Also, because of a crash, I lost my logon info to the webpage. It
used my email address and account number to send me my User-id, but
it wouldn't send me my password without the name of my first pet. I
only had one thing that might be called a pet, and that name didn't
work. So I wrote them 2 months ago, and they never replied or changed
the way the page worked.
.

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