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Couple's monthly bill soars with elimination of all-electric home discount Linda Martz News Journal MANSFIELD —Melissa and Joe Dunlap got a rude surprise several weeks after moving into the house they rent on Elderberry Court. Their February electricity bill from Ohio Edison totaled $629. Based on past bills for the house, they had expected to pay about $270 or $280 for that cold winter month. The utility bill ushered in something they hadn’t heard about for FirstEnergy-affiliated utility companies: the elimination of longtime discounts on rates for all-electric homes. Higher rates will affect people who purchase or rent electric-heated homes, or sign up for electric service after Jan. 1, 2007 — but not existing customers, who will be “grandfathered in” under the old discounted rates. “I about fell over. That’s almost as much as our rent,” Melissa Dunlap said. “That was one of our questions when we moved in: How was the electric bill?” Landlord Kurt Stimens helped the shocked couple by paying a portion of their February bill. He also offered them an opportunity to live in one of his other properties not heated by electricity. “We’re not sure what we’re going to do,” Dunlap said. “We moved out of a house double the size of this, and we never had, between our gas and electric, that kind of bills with the two combined... We can’t afford this.” Loss of discounted rates for electric-heated homes eventually could affect thousands of customers of FirstEnergy, which operates three subsidiaries in the state: Ohio Edison, Toledo Edison and Cleveland Electric Illuminating. FirstEnergy spokesman Mark Durbin said people living in all-electric homes have enjoyed discounts since the 1970s, when the industry — wrestling with excess generation —tried encouraging customers to use more kilowatt hours. Ohio Edison and other utility companies offered low rates for all-electric residences as an incentive to use electric heating systems, he said. Ohio Edison appears to have marketed the incentives more actively than other companies, Durbin said. “It was a popular program.” But utility markets have changed, he said. The rate change for new customers in electric-heated homes is one portion of a larger package of changes for FirstEnergy, as the result of the rate certainty plan approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. New customers moving into electric-heated homes or apartments after Jan. 1 do face an increase, Durbin said. Those using 750 kilowatt hours a month would see their bills rise from $77.71 to $88.45, Durbin said. “That’s maybe a $10 or 11 difference.” “They were getting a pretty good deal for a lot of years,” he said. “But when you look at the price of other fuels, those have risen dramatically in the last few years.” Average monthly residential use of electricity in Ohio households, including the high-use winter and summer months, runs about 800 kilowatt hours per month, said Julie Daubenmire of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The bill for the all-electric house the Dunlaps live in showed an average monthly use of 2,343 KWH but 3,899 kilowatt hours in February when the average daily temperature was 16. About 250,000 residential customers in the Ohio Edison territory live in electric-heated homes or apartments, Daubenmire said. U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that 17.4 percent of households in Richland County are heated by electricity. Though that percentage is far lower than the 65.1 percent that rely on natural gas piped in by a utility company, it still amounts to nearly 9,000 electric-heated households. Over the past several years, “I built 29 houses that are all-electric because Ohio Edison promised this lower rate,” Kurt Stimens said. “They promised it would be in forever. Then they destroyed it.” Stimens said he added extra insulation to keep utility bills down. He believes only a few area residents living in all-electric homes have an inkling how their bills will increase. “Most apartments are all-electric,” he said. “It’s like the tip of the iceberg. There will be a lot more people squawking.” Landlord Mike Barry said he has tenants in about 70 electric-heated units. So far, he hasn’t heard complaints about utility bills. “It’s getting warmer now, so we probably won’t hear until next year,” he said. But if rates climb steeply, that’s unfair, Barry said. “They talked us all into going electric — then they switched it. It’s not right.” Ryan Lippe of the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel said the agency, which at first opposed First Energy’s rate certainty plan, later said it would not actively oppose it if FirstEnergy agreed to create programs that could help the utility’s customers lower their bills. The OCC is working with FirstEnergy to create programs that would include helping consumers bring energy auditors into their homes to recommend energy-saving changes, Lippe said.

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some new styles are going on sale tomorrow and i'll be styling with my detroit makos and wnur shirts autographed by the whole jazz department. an autographed organissimo t, if you sell them would be most cool, too.

terrible news indeed. are the areas where lots of creative musicians live developing any sort of neighborhood bars/clubs to offset this sort of thing?

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dan gould has a very thoughtful recipe for preparing his own pet food, parts of which i use. if you contact dan he will gladly share his recipes with you. i am through with commercial pet foods.

vi redd saxophonists/ vocalist 60's info?

harry caray not a bad name, hell of an announcer with the cardinals.

i would love to have heard paul bley and tony duo. would have been incredible.

his work is all gorgeous. this koto stuff is somewhere beyond beauty(music for zen meditation).

i loved mta pros. they were really sturdy. they were so damn durable. wish i could find a good pair now.

the junior high kids endlessly yelled 'k-mart' at my lovely little grand-daughter's shoes a few years ago, till i bought her nikes.

LeBron James vs. Stephon Marbury: The $150 Shoe vs. the $15 Shoe Posted Mar 29th 2007 2:32PM by Nate Jones Filed under: Knicks, Cavaliers, Eastern, NBA Gossip, NBA Last Night, Cleveland, New York During last nights Knicks and Cavs match up, there was another battle going on. As well documented around the net, Stephon Marbury is endorsing a line of $15 Steve and Barry's kicks called Starburys. The premise behind the shoe is to give kids that can't afford outrageously priced shoes a chance to purchase a pair of NBA endorsed kicks that won't break their parent's bank account. So what does LeBron James, endorser of Nike's outrageously priced basketball sneakers, have to say about Marbury's new kicks? Here's what he told Newsday's Ken Berger: Before the game, James took a little shot at Marbury's $14.98 kicks, saying he couldn't imagine endorsing a sneaker that cheap. "No, I don't think so," James said. "Me being with Nike, we hold our standards high." Obviously LeBron James rise to fame and riches has allowed him to forget about where he comes from. Isn't this the same LeBron James that grew up in poverty in Akron, OH? What Marbury is doing is starting a cultural revolution. He's trying to change the game so that kids don't feel left out if they don't have a pair of $150 shoes. If LeBron wanted to be the man to be a real global icon, he would look to be something more than a puppet for Nike and become a leader like Marbury and step out and do something different that would actually aid the people that come from backgrounds similar to his own. As well, there are plenty of people that are making millions of dollars selling cheaper shoes. Shaquille O'neal has been doing it for years, but at more than twice the price ($39.99) of the Starburys. So what's Stephon's response to LeBron's obvious arrogance? Marbury, who is friendly with James, was lacing up his Starburys before the game when informed of LeBron's comment. He thought about it for a moment and said, "I'd rather own than be owned." For those of you that don't know, unlike James, Marbury is actually tied to the equity of his brand. Marbury gets a piece of the profits from every Starbury shoe that is sold. So not only does he have a chance to revolutionize the shoe industry in a way that benefits the low income consumer, but he also has a chance to become a big time shoe mogul. Instead of being a lemming, James might want to start taking notes.

are they on the web?------my kind of music! Yep, here's the link. a belated thanks!

just hear 'misery' with carmen mcrae and with tony on piano incredible music. wkcr is now playing some of his quartet music.

Greenspan's point is that the problem with the subprime market is the decline in housing prices. If people who have ARMs that are about to adjust had more equity in their houses (IE, higher prices), they'd be in a position to refinance into a 30 year fixed at an affordable rate. The problem is people who have gotten themselves into negative amortization situations and are now "upside down" on their house wherein they owe more than the house is worth. No finance company will touch that situation, and those are the people who are going to lose their houses. Those are the people (mostly) who are defaulting and generating the "crisis" in the subprime market. it doesn't exactly take a brainiac to say that higher home values would solve the problem. Higher home values always solve the problem of bad loans - it allows people to refinance and consolidate their debts and not lose their homes. ..and the people who sold and financed those homes knew that day would come when values would even out, long term averages not withstanding, and didnt give a damn about the poor buyers.

and no condo neighbors to complain?

greenspan should have enough respect for his successor to keep his big trap shut. his words no longer mean anything, but he craves the limelight and commands huge speaking fees. his time would be better spent leading a ghost band for henry jerome or tending to his lovely bride andrea mitchell. paul volcker, greenspan's predecessor, didnt cause greenspan problems when volcker left office.

just pay another 115 next month. that way you will save a month's interest, just double the principal payment every month. save a bunch. should be easy the first few years

i went through similar about 20 years ago and things settled down, after i switched to a local mortgage company. i am confident they will for you, too.

all that, and you still backbone this magnificent forum. several hundred of us owe you bigtime. can you get automatic withdrawals set up?

a very recent cubby pictcher who moved on to the bosox had 6 fingers on each hand, but, far as i know, he was spared a nickname.