Comments on: P.U. C. Prompts Gas Rate “Math Story Problem”

By: Wondering

Wondering — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 01:19:01 +0000

The natural gas index actually decreased this month about 1.4, I think. Global warming just makes the demand lower. And there is ample supply.

The increases pay for Easterner’s extra apartment.

EDITOR NOTE: Word on the street has it that Easterner’s apartment is used only when his wife cannot tolerate his obsession with monitoring the GUARDIAN and readers.

By: Flyhead

Flyhead — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:08:14 +0000

So when is a rate decrease really an increase?

I do think there is a way for Intermountain Gas and Idaho Power to save money. That would be to make billing electronic. Those who still want a paper bill and to pay via snail mail get charged a nominal fee for this overburden in the age of electronic payment options. I use bill pay on my Wells Fargo checking account to pay both gas and electricity.

Think about all the waste involved in paper bills and the costs of handling snail mail payments. It has to cost millions over a year of sending out these bills.

By: Porcupine

Porcupine — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:52:46 +0000

Us folks in Idaho City don’t understand this new math. But only if the state would let us have low stakes gambling I think we would.

By: Bieter Begone

Bieter Begone — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:10:36 +0000

Think I get It

Who takes the statesman?

By: Easterner

Easterner — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:37:33 +0000

LOL.
🙂

By: Waste

Waste — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:04:38 +0000

Look at nighttime picture of North Dakota and west Texas from space. All that yellow light is from gas flares. Gas that could be used for heat, electricity, and transportation. And it’s very very clean burning to boot. Our politicos are controlled by the OIL corporations and just don’t want to make the effort to use that gas.

By: Think I get it

Think I get it — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:17:24 +0000

They are lowering the annual rate as a sort of rebate because prices have been stable or gone down, and we have paid a stable or increasing rate.

Our monthly billing is being increased, for the cost of the billing, because some customers took advantage of incentives.

This may be akin to the future, wherein if I can afford less water to drink I will pee less and incur less sewer.

I can afford to heat less, so I heat less, and demand decreases. Incentives or rebates however are still costs, and they are born by those who conserve.

The local natural gas company is not such a bad provider. FERC helps a lot, and if or when you lose regulation, hold on to you old Statesman newspapers to burn for heat.