Shawn Lin wrote:
>
> It's not exactly a way for electrical companies to rip us off though, as
> to determine total power consumed (past tense) you do have to take into
> account both amps, volts, and time. This is why the meter on your house
> is in kWh (kilowatt-hours, power * time). This is because you're billed
> by how much power is consumed and for how long. Although I do agree
> that the electric companies probably rip us off some way or another. :)
Shawn,
Normally I wouldn't write this much off topic (actually since the
subject is a power supply for an MD recorder I just straying a little :)
but
the list has been so slow (I guess that either people are taking
advantage of the weather or on vacation) that my posts are making sure
the list
is still functioning correctly :)
I was joking about my reference to the electric company and watts, but
here is a list of the individual charges on my electric bill:
Distribution Charge:
Customer charge:
750KWH at 1.913000000c per KWH [the c =cents since there in no
symbol for cents on a standard computer key board]
227KWH at 1.437000000c per KWH
Transmission Charge:
977 KWH at 0.058000000c per KWH
Competitive Transmission Charge:
750 KWH at 0.34000000c per KWH
227 KWH at 0.25500000c per KWH
Intangible Transition Charge:
750 KWH at 1.79700000c per KWH
227 KWH at 1.35000000c per KWH
Generation Charge:
Capacity and Energy
750 KWH at 5.66200000c per KWH
227 KWH at 4.11000000c per KWH
Sales tax
Can you believe that they are allowed to charge a "competitive" charge
and better yet an "intangible" charge!!!!
Synonyms for that word are, insubstantial, ELUSIVE!!??, vague,
indefinable, and indescribable. Can you believe that they are allowed
to get
away with that? Try deducting an "intangible" deduction from your
income tax!
Here in PA you are supposed to be able to pick your own electric
company. But then in small print it says, "the company that generates
the
electricity". That means if you go with a company other than the
monopoly, you still have to pay them all but the generation charge. I
don't
know of anyone that has switched electric companies since you have been
allowed to.
Man this is Newspeak!! Big Brother now allows you to choose the
electric company you want except you still have to pay the old electric
company. Some people have made the argument, "would you really want the
government to take it over", implying that it would only be worse and
more expensive.
But don't let the military's $750 hammer fool you, I've been in the Air
Force and see how they waste money. For years the military went
unchecked and got a blank check. Other branches of government are not
always that way. You should see the disgusting post office we have in
our town. They were supposed to move, but chucked plans.
For the longest time they would not even allow more than one person at a
time to work there (even though the population of our town keeps
increasing). It hasn't been painted since they moved in and the drop
ceiling is falling down. I sell a lot of stuff on ebay, and although I
have personally only had one problem with UPS, many people tell me that
they refuse to ship UPS because of the problems they have.
Considering the volume and increasing competition that the USPS has, I
think postal rates are for the most part very fair. If the government
ran the electric companies the way that they run the post office, you
might not see things like the problems that we have having in Calif.
There may be a lot of corruption in government, but it is nothing
compared to the private sector. Take Microsoft, they just got away with
every
illegal business practice they were pulling (I read a whole article
about what a joke the courts ruling is-It has a cartoon of a tiny Uncle
Sam
trying to hold a HUGE Bill Gates on a leash).
Larry
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