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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: average joe who wrote (44237)	1/9/2006 11:41:42 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Using less energy makes it hard for the Gas company to make ends meet. (G)Ass Backwards: To support its December rate-increase request, the Connecticut utility Yankee Gas Services said it needs more money because too many of its customers have lowered their bills by heeding calls to conserve energy. And a November report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce included the proposal that Congress replenish the federal Highway Trust Fund by imposing a special tax on gas-saving hybrid cars (in that those cars consume less fuel than regular cars and therefore pay less in gasoline tax). [Connecticut Post, 12-10-05] [Boston Globe-AP, 11-26-05] Similar thing going on here, only with water... We had several years of drought so everyone converted to Zeroscaped lawns and water conservation in general. The water company couldn't make any money that way so they raised the rates. Now the drought is over and even with plenty of water in the reservoirs, our bills remain sky high.

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