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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What else is PEPCO supposed to do besides raise rates? They don’t have any choice.

More fossil fuel power plants are closing each year. There’s not enough solar and wind generating coming on line to replace the electrical capacity that the closing plants provided.

So the only option utilities have is to make power more expensive so people will use less of it. Otherwise we get into a situation where there not enough power to go around. Then we get blackouts. Is that what you want?

Maybe one day there might be enough wind and solar to replace the electrical capacity of the closing fossil fuel plants. But there isn’t today. Or tomorrow or next year. So the only option is to make electricity so expensive that everyone uses less of it

This isn’t hard to process [/quote]

This isn't remotely true and shame on you for trying to justify and rationalize it.

I'm guessing you are the same person that demands increased traffic congestion.[/quote]

WTH? What’s not untrue? Fossil fuel plants are shutting down all over the country.  Brandon Shores Power Plant (coal fired) in Anne Arundel county MD will be shutting down soon. It’s one of dozens of plants that will be closing soon, taking tens of thousands of megawatts out of the grid. There’s not enough solar and wind in the construction pipeline to make up the difference, especially at night and in the winter. The only way to protect against blackouts is to use less electricity. The way you force people to use less electricity is to make it more expensive.

What part of what I just said isn’t true?

And as for increased traffic congestion (weird tangent, btw), I would basically eliminate traffic altogether. Because if I were in charge, I would outlaw privately owned vehicles. Boom. No more traffic jams. The buses you’d be riding on would own the road. Problem solved. [/quote]

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