Governor Strickland is demanding that the house pass legislation to keep electric rates in check. Runaway electricity rates would not only devastate consumers, but also impact businesses and jobs throughout the state.
Recently, Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted unveiled electric utility re-regulation legislation that was to be presented to the full House for quick passage. Buried in his proposed legislation are several provisions that would allow Akron based First Energy (parent company of Ohio Edison) to charge its customers high electricity rates. First Energys' customers already pay the highest electricity rates in Ohio.
It is not hard to understand why First Energy is being treated so favorably by Speaker Husted and the House Republicans.
Based on information from the Ohio Secretary of States' site, First Energys' CEO and the First Energy Political Action Committee have contributed well over a million dollars in campaign contributions, mostly to Republican candidates and causes.
No wonder house speaker Jon Husted is having such a hard time coming up with legislation that is kind to First Energy and also acceptable to the rest of Ohio.
The legislation proposed by speaker Husted is so biased in favor of First Energy that other Ohio electric utilities, like American Electric Power in Columbus, are now crying foul.
Ohio energy bill stalemate continues
Haven't we suffered enough from foreclosures, job losses, prices at the pump, business bankruptcies and loss of life & limb at war ?
Do we also have to be gouged thru our electricity bills ?
Matthew 6:24
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Ohio House Speaker Husted and the Ohio House Republicans can serve Ohioans or First Energy, but not both.
Jack Schira
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