COLUMN: In fear, we forfeit our freedom gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Xcel Energy is the goliath power monopoly “serving” a vast number of Coloradans. And their mission is to put the interest of their ratepayers, euphemistically called “customers,” well behind their shareholders.
I’ve mentioned this, but it deserves repeating. Your electric rates should be the lowest in 20 years. Demand for electricity is at its lowest thanks to conservation and technological, power-saving advancements. You are using less power than you ever have.
At the same time the cost of the fuel that creates electricity is at an all-time low. The floor has fallen out of the coal market; just ask the unemployed folks in coal towns such as Craig. And technology, namely hydraulic fracturing, has unlocked massive and inexpensive reserves of oil and gas.
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Win 4 Packs of Family Admission Passes for the ALL NEW Historic Bethlehem Museum and Sites: Christmas in the Quarter at The Historic Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem. running now through Dec. 27th! For tickets and more info, visit Historic Bethlehem.org! One grand prize winner at end of week will also be given a CHRISTMAS COTTAGE at Christmas at the Quarter. Each cottage has a table and chairs with a heater and is available for guests to reserve hour-long time slots. Fits 5 comfortably. Visit with friends and family to relax from a long day of shopping, site-seeing, or get your favorite meal to-go and set up private dinner!
The Radical Center: Two cheers for Big Pharma s Pfizer gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.