What is Driving Up Electricity Prices???? (advertisement tucked in obscure page of the newspaper)

"WHY has the energy supply cost gone up so much??"
OF COURSE....how silly of me, it's the fault of China and India!! The gall of them, thinking they have the right to suck up all of that energy to develop their economies-energy that rightfully should be going to the good ol' Red, White and Blue ...(them countries is full of small brown foreigners, dontcha know!)

Course it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the total combined compensation for PSE&G's top five executives comes to just a smidge under TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!

$24,000,000

That's right, while I'm entertaining an excruciating inner debate as to whether or not I can afford having the oven on all day to bake a (free) ham these mofos are bringing in 744 times my salary!!! 'Course that don't have nuthin' to do with my electricity bills rising nigh on 300% in 5 years (60% a year, folks!)

Nope, it's all them uppity brown folks' fault. Wait, oh yeah and them left-winger green radical granola freaks!!

"Making electricity cleaner also adds costs"

Damn commie liberals!! They're probably in cahoots w/ them foreigner chinks....oh, let's not forget, Corzine, one of them commie liberal democrat leaders!! They're always somewhere behind the scenes in these travesties of the natural order.

dudes.....

How 'bout this? How 'bout when you're 'debating action to combat climate change' and 'factoring in the cost of different alternatives on electric prices'...hows 'bout bringing the CEO compensation to the table. Eh? I mean, really what in TARNATION do you need $13,000,000 a year (the top JCP&L CEO salary) for?? WHAT???

One more little bit of money saving advice: save yourselves some effort and dump the PR campaign...do you think anybody is reading these little ads (other than obsessed angry freaks like myself?) . I could have undoubtedly covered three months of electricity bills with the cost of that ad.


Pleeeease....why must you add insult to the injury.

(and some news..)
unsolicted lightbulbs
Seeking lower energy costs not worth it?
(I've actually looked into this...you almost have to have an MBA to figure it out

coming soon....latest on my bill ....

DAMN THE MAN #1

welcome to the inaugural post of DAMN THE MAN!!!

A quick overview and then I am off to work for the Man.....yes, on a Saturday.....we'll get into that later. This is an undertaking I have contemplated for quite some time and then, finally, this morning I saw this headline:

Electric rates going up for third consecutive year

That's it. I've freaking had it-thats right, folks, I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!

Look now, I'm no socialist (although I probably would be if I didn't have such a strong genetic tendency towards hatred of authority-barring my own, of course) but SHIT has gotten OUT 'O CONTROL, FOLK!! I mean, COME ON!

In the interest of brevity this morning, let me just say this....I don't have a high-rise to throw my TV out of (which I never watch anyway) so I am taking my revolt to the cyberworld. I'm posting my comic 'Damn the Man', or 'Is PNC the AntiChrist?' and the complaint I filed this morning with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, just to get things warmed UP. All comments and suggestions are welcome albeit subject to derision (gotta put that disclaimer in just in case).
No more "Yassir Yassir", no more "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
To quote Howard Dean, as he was heard to utter one fine day around four years ago in that great home state of mine:

"AAAAARRRRGH!!!"

Read my complaint

against JCP&L filed this morning (02/09/2008) with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities:

When I received my bill this month, the usage that the company had calculated for my household was 65% higher than usage the same month of the previous year-despite no changes at all in my habits or appliance usage. When I asked them to do a new reading of my meter, I received a voicemail stating that I needed to provide them with a key to access the meter. Because I live in a federal housing project, this presents a major obstacle for me as I work full-time (I have tried to obtain access to the electric room before for cable installation so I know it is a nightmare). However, I have never had to provide the meter reader with a key before and yet they do not seem to have a problem billing me each month. Now I read that our rates are expected to rise in the double digits in the coming year due to 'prices'. I also see that the CEO of firstenergy, in FY06 (most recent year available) made well over $12 million dollars. My complaint is this: In the last five years, my electricity rates have risen hundreds percent...something like 150%-therefore it stands to reason that the CEO's salary should be reduced by an equal percentage amount and that money should be put towards lowering the monthly rates. Obviously this man has not been doing a $12 million job. Why am I (and you and all of us poor working people) paying for this man's life of luxury when his performance is so dismal??

'Damn the Man', or 'Is PNC the AntiChrist?'