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ComEd sent me this notice today:

...Because your electric rates have been frozen since 1997, rates will increase in 2007. Quite simply, the cost of electricity has increased during the nine-year freeze, as have our costs to deliver that power.

I understand the latter. You have to buy new trucks and new hardhats for the meter-readers. I don't even begrudge your workers their COL increases and a little extra, even. What I'm grumpy about is that the cost of electricity has increased. Why? Because the energy producers have no motivation not to increase it. We need a NASA program for energy, one devoted to the common good (not the business good). While delivery costs should be going up, electricity should be getting cheaper. I want my techno-utopia, with energy so cheap it won't be worth metering.

Posted by briley at March 7, 2006 5:46 AM