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Electric & Gas Rates Going Up – No Surprise There
The company that bought out our local electric & gas supplier, New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) about a year ago agreed, as part of the deal, to not request a rate increase for a year. They lied. Their first request came in January, just [...]

It’s hard when you’re passionate–and upset–not to use words like “psycho nut-job” and “communist thugs” when it comes to our state “leaders” who believe they know better than we citizens how we should live our lives. But I’ll try to behave myself.
My latest rant has to do with kool aide drinkers who believe man is [...]

Chucky Schumer, one of our two socialist U.S. Senators from New York, thinks fuel prices are too high. The latest sleazy way he’s keeping his name in the news (and in front of dimwits who vote for him) is to talk about the price of diesel fuel for school districts in Upstate New York. He’s [...]

Another chapter in Grimm’s (Environmentally Amended) Fairy Tales…
Once upon a time big bad energy companies did something really really bad. They wanted to drill for natural gas where (gasp) natural gas actually existed! Can you imagine raping the ground for something natural? Anyway, these big bad energy companies were of course enabled by and codependent [...]

A lot has happened since I’ve first written about drilling for natural gas around the Greater Binghamton region. For one thing, groups of land owners have banded together and signed contracts worth millions. Yes, millions. Some local farmers who have struggled for years working the farm, paying high taxes and trying to hold on to [...]

According to the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Schumer presses for utility-merger deal), New York’s esteemed senior Senator, Chuckie Schumer (D-New York), wants to help a foreign company take over most of Upstate New York’s energy utilities. Yes, the good Senator has thrown his weight behind the proposed Iberdrola takeover of Energy East, the company that doesn’t [...]

The fix is now in. Our illustrious philandering new governor, David Paterson, has granted his blessing on the foreign takeover of Energy East, which owns our regional electric and gas utility NYSEG (New York State Electric & Gas). He likes the idea that Iberdrola, the Spanish company who wants to buy it, will “invest” $2 [...]