Complaint Review: Appalachian Power

Mark, you seem sincere in your erroneous ramblings. Your spelling and grammar is as flawed as your reasoning. Quote: How can you loose me Gee, I dont know. Just how loose are you. Or did you mean lose?

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Virtually all of the electric utilities are regulated by Federal and / or State

Regulatory entities.  The rates are normally governed by the percentage of profits generated by the utilities.

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The solar panels to which you allude at $99.00 and less put out such a minuscule amount of power as to be basically useless. This will be my last

entry on this subject.  I have no desire to engage in an ersatz battle of wits with an unarmed man.

You are not directly responding to any questions.

I read some of your links and it doesn't look to me like any $100 solar array is going to run my whole house.  Especially at night and on cloudy days. 

If you knew this person who died, why didn't you set them up with free power? At least for the medical equipment she needed to be able to survive should have been on your $100 array.  If you have the knowledge and didn't do anything, don't you share in some of the responsibility?

It would be nice if it were as easy as you say but it's not.

I know in my state the utility companies have to have rate hikes approved before they can charge them.  Have you leaned on the legislators?  How does RICO apply to this?

Look I don't know you you do not have your name on my degree nor do you have your name on my government service. I know the person that lost her mother. The prices are too high for the electric company and that is proven. As for the price being too expensive I hate to tell you this but the research all over the world including the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

While you are trying to explain how the RICO laws apply to Electric Companies raising their rates.  Would you please provide us with ONE verifiable link/report that shows someone's mother died because the electric company cut off her power and she was on oxygen. 

I do love the links though, I didn't know there was so much "free engery" around.  I mean someone built a solar pannel for $17 and was able to power a Computer Fan..brilliant.  Even more brilliant is that they were more than willing to charge you about $50 to find out how they did it.

I liked the other link that built a solar cell for about $110 to generate 110 watts.  That was enough to power a hall light.  Again brilliant, because I was just saying to myself this morning..Gee it's sunny outside I think I need to turn ON my lights.

Mark:

Lets go back to your initial rant for this quote:

This rip off can no longer be allowed we have the technology to make free energy and this would not only benefit

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Ya lost me there, bud.  You want free electricity? Google Dennis Lee.

He has been promising free electricity for over ten years now.  Frankly, your entry parallels many of Mr. Lees timeless dogmatic ramblings.

As far as your reasoning and statements, I have seldom read such flawed logic and conclusions.

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To power the average household exclusively with solar power would involve an initial  investment of thousands of dollars. The maintenance, primarily periodic battery replacement would amount to additional thousands over a 10 year period.  

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Total solar power on an individual basis is completely out of the question, except for the wealthy few who dont really need it anyway.  Those who

are doing it for the feel good, Im green value or to impress others.

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As far as your statement: Appalachian Power Company has been allowed to violate State and federal laws

 They are the causes of some fixed income families that had their elderly mother die due to be on an oxygen machine and can not be without electricity.

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This smacks of some urban legend  passed on by I knew a guy, who knew a guy, whose second cousin heard from a fellow at work relating a story he knew to be true from a fellow from the VFW.etc.  There are multiple entities who could and would step in on life-and-death episode like this even IF the power company DID terminate service.  As a previous contributor also stated no electric company ever terminates service without multiple warnings.

Ok, there is no question that the sources of energy you are talking about are free - solar, wind etc.  However, the equipment to harness enough of that free energy to run a house, a town or a country are certainly not free.  I looked up the price of the big 200 foot wind generators and they appear to be around a million dollars apiece.  Same for very large solar arrays.  They are not cheap to build, install or maintain.

Do you have a solar array that runs your house?  I'd like to know what you have, how much it costs and how well it works.  It sounds interesting to me.

The source of energy for hydroelectric power is also free (water) but dams and turbines sure aren't free. 

I think you're right that other countries are ahead of us and that's unfortunate.  Of course the scale would have to be a LOT larger here to run our whole country.  We need to keep working on it though.

You talked about someone losing their mother, I misinterpreted that to mean you.  As for you being a Federal Law Enforcement Officer, whoopy do.  Please tell us WHAT racketeering they engaged in?  I read the statute and still don't see a violation.  They are not collecting unlawful debts...all monies owed them are legal.  I think you are mistaken about the proper application of RICO.  Please point out the law that states that no power company can raise any rate except that which is a legitimate mark up. 

Here is links I mean we have been in the 21st century now for a little while Solar energy , The sun for the less intelligent, can provide free energy

I am happy you admitted that you dint understand things and was not too smart here is the links to free energy I mean Iceland laughs at us everyday cause they use Geothermal

I'm the first to admit I am not the smartest person in town and I don't seem to be able to understand where the passages you quoted (from what?) says that power is free.

It would be awesome if we all had personal solar power to power our homes but the equipment to install it sure isn't free. You can connect to the power grid and maybe get your meter to run backward a little now and then but you will still need power from the grid at night or anytime there is not enough light to create enough power.

Are you just saying they're charging too much?  That I can agree with but I don't think power is free.

Maybe you just need to explain what you mean a little better for dopes like me.

 

First off my power was not cut off thank god, But i will outline the racketeering laws that  is the law they broke what they broke it seems to me you do not know them I was a Federal Police Officer in the United States Coast Guard I know what section of the USC they broke

What laws did they break?  If your power was cut off, the companies give you a lot of notice it's coming.  Therefore you had notice to find alternate accommodations for your mother.  I do sympathize with the bill issue as we are in a bad economy but the power companies are a business...which exists to generate profit.  There are probably charities that could have helped you. The power company most likely gave you time to get things straightened out but they can only hold you hand so long.  I'm sorry if you lost your mother but it is not the power company's fault.