Others around the state don't really care about our energy crisis?

What a shocker! I have to admit, I really don't care about what goes on up north either...Especially at Ethans house...But I digress, really, who here ever gives much thought to what goes on in Anchorage, Fairbanks, or bush Alaska? Me neither, so why should they?

Then there is this...

Here is your AEL&P president, in all his glory. He has a chance to show he is for the community, but has decided that he is all that and us little people should get a life.

AEL&P President Tim McLeod said he couldn't find a way to give "parallel rates" to customers that allowed some to pay over time while others paid in full each month. AEL&P is not in the position to extend loans to its customers, McLeod said. He encouraged customers having trouble paying their bill next month to borrow money from the bank

This is why people are fed up.


We even made the national news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24373676/

Kind of funny...I think they make it sound a bit worse than it is...A run on lamp oil for God's sake...You should check out the picture of a bunch of yuppie looking Juneauites convening to share a meal and energy in hard times...LOL!

It's Here: The Norwergian Star has landed!

I had to drive through a few dozen early morning tourists...A little bumpy but I managed without spilling my morning brew...crown and coffee my preferred early morning pick me up...Most of the ones I spared didn't seem too thrilled about the weather...LOL!

By the way...Does anyone have any rice to spare?

Seems like we're being bought out here in town...Gee, I wonder what group is buying it all? I hear the price has doubled...American growers are stating there is no rice shortage in the US, regardless of the world stocks...

“Little man that’s lying.”

Rep. Don Young and Sean Parnell, who is one of the Republicans challenging Young for his U.S. House seat, are trading shots over their differing recollections of a conversation last year, according to a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner story today. Parnell, in comments to the paper’s editorial board, apparently saw Young’s remarks during a conversation over the split between congressional delegation and the governor’s office as threats to his political career and to Gov. Sarah Palin’s. Young, however, saw his part of the talk as “friendly advice.”

Young called Parnell a “little man that’s lying,” according to the story. The story goes on to look at other aspects of Young’s re-election effort and his relationship with the governor’s office, which is not good. “I work with the Legislature real well, but how can I work with someone who is supporting my opponent?” Young said of Palin’s endorsement of Parnell.

This is gonna be good...I don't really like Young, can't stand Berky, and if Sarah will endorse Sean "P. Diddy" Parnell then I may just have to root for him...Depends on where he stands on the capital move issue though!

No new news on Ethan B.'s alternative lifestyle in any paper today?

I did find this cute little photo-op though...

Anderson Dissents...Was he right?

It's almost like picking up a steaming pile of stool sample for the vet...It feels wrong but it has to be done. Personally I liked the vote since it may seem like we need a moment to think about it.

Incidentally, I emailed Ms. Wood yesterday regarding credit card payments without their surcharge and got no response. It might have been that she was busy...Now she's probably busy dealing with Mr. Anderson...Lol.

Here is an interesting story picked up by the bleeding anus: (see yesterday's comments)

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042908/sta_273333623.shtml#mdw-comments

Seems the truth hurts...(no pun intended) I find it a bit amusing but I must admit it's even a bit below the belt(no pun intended again) Seems our dear Mr. Berkowitz reality is smacking him square in the face(no pun again lol).

Ok, if you haven't read the article the jist is that Mr. Berkowitz(career politician that he is) is running for congress...LOL and if you go to his web site and misspell it at all you get linked to gay "stuff." One of them is called "Trust fund baby."
No Bob, I just read the article. I have denounced him in past posts.

Why didn't we ever try and pull this stuff with Beth K? Just thinking out loud here...

Interestingly enough, the Anchorage paper had nothing about it this morning which means they either buried it or we got it a day late...By the way, Elton John will be performing in Anchorage May 28th...coincidence..? Maybe?

First Cruise Ship is in tomorrow!

All together now: "Yeah! Boo! Aww! Motherf*cker!"

I hate the buses, the idiots walking in the road...out of towner's by the thousands asking stupid questions "Does it snow here?" "Does it get cold here?"

Grrr...Something that kind of irritated me, we have a Ketchikan company that came here a few years ago and opened the zip line tour on Douglas Island...Hired some locals, made some money...

This year they hired their boat captains outside as well as deck hands...One of the deck hands said he found them on Craigslist...WTF!?!?! This is the kind of sh*t that pisses me off!

You gotta see this! Tell me what you think about it!

http://www.juneaublogger.com/updates/?p=432






Do you think it's fair for AEL&P to spread our rate hike over 12 months?

Do you think they should be able to charge interest since they received a interest free loan from the city?

Do your think it's fair that we have to incur the costs related to the avalanche?

Do you have any suggestions on how AEL&P could handle this better?

I want an interest free loan from the city too...

Seriously I'm getting sick of this whole thing...On one hand they tell us were not gonna get screwed by them charging us before the avalanche...the next day were told there is no way to avoid it because of how the regulatory commision sets up utilities..? I think this is absolute bullsh*t!

Can you imagine your local heating oil company coming out and delivering fuel to you on say April 1st...Charging you $3.50 per gallon on that day...then sending you a statement at the end of the month saying sorry, the price changed and we have to charge you $4.20 per gallon..?

It's the same thing no matter how you cut it and it's white collar crime! No matter how it is spun, they are doing us wrong.

There is their interest free loan right there...All the folks getting screwed is gonna add up to millions of our hard earned dollars to them for nothing...Just taken from us!

Sorry, getting a bit frustrated with all this...Someone made an interesting recommendation on "the other blog." Went something like this:

Call AEL&P now and cancel your service, then well before the end of the month, get it reconnected and they have to issue you a bill for all of April at the old rate? Sounds good, but you may actually have to go without power for a few days..?

SEACC in the news again...Stalling again...F*ck them!!!

Stalling again after the SIS was turned in...Now SEACC says it would prefer an Environmental Assessment Review rather than the Supplemental Information Report the US Forest Service turned in.

The assessment would take longer to complete than the report but would be more thorough according to SEACC’s Rob Cadmus. *ssholes!!! Don't they understand they've stalled long enough, COUER has given in enough! The hard working folks of Juneau want those jobs!

Doesn't SEACC get it?

The public has until the end of the working day to give their opinion to:

Mr. Pete Griffin, District Ranger
Alaska Region – Tongass National Forest
Juneau Ranger District

You can email him at: pgriffin@fs.fed.us

I did and here is also a list of folks you can copy your comments to:
thenderson@coeur.com; dkerr@coeur.com; shaw.hanh@epa.gov; Victor.O.Ross@poa02.usace.army.mil; Governor@gov.state.ak.us; Joe_Balash@gov.state.ak.us; larry.hartig@alaska.gov; dan.easton@alaska.gov; tom.irwin@alaska.gov; tom.crafford@alaska.gov; Kate_Williams@stevens.senate.gov; Nathan_Bergerbest@murkowski.senate.gov; Kevin.V.Kennedy@mail.house.gov; Connie_McKenzie@stevens.senate.gov; jtrigg@coeur.com.

I did and received a reply from a few of the folks on the email list...Bob, since I'm boring you...In silent protest you can stay of it...LOL

Let's get some facts about the oil & gas prices

First off, AEL&P's crisis has nothing to do with prices rising...At all, anyone that pays any attention to the news knows that the barrel price for crude reached $120 with no signs of slowing down. That Juneau, is why prices are so high and climbing. Unfortunately, they aren't gonna go back down. If they do, it won't be significant.

A far as AEL&P goes...

This is the latest!

From KINYRADIO web site

A-E-L & P files for emergency rate adjustmentAlaska Electric Light and Power has filed for an emergency cost of power adjustment with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.That's covered in regulations adopted in August of 1998 when Snettisham was transferred from federal to state control.It enables the utility to recover the cost of fuel necessary to generate power in the event of a Snettisham shutdown.Cost adjustments are subject to commission review and approval.A-E -L and P Director of Consumer Affairs Gayle Wood says the utility's request is 42 point 9 cents per kilowatt hour.That would bring a residential customer's rate for the month of May up to 52 point 5 cents per kilowatt hour.That represents a 447 percent increase over the current 11 cent kilowatt rate.For a residential customer consuming 1,000 kilowatts per month the new rate would result in an overall increase from $125.43 per month to $561 per month.Wood says customers, whose bills go out in early May, will be seeing consumption from early April, before the avalanches occurred April 16th, into early May.
Wood says according to the rules of the utility's tariff, the cost of power adjustment must go into effect on the 1st of May.She says there's "not any wiggle room as they see it" to change that rule.Wood says, over time, it kind of balances out.Every month the utility will be establishing a new cost of power adjustment rate.June's rate is likely to be reduced slightly, to 38 to 42 cents per kilowatt hour.She says those customers that had their meter read the first of May will be the first to receive the reduced rate for June usage.The rate can be recalculated every 30 days.Wood says it will be adjusted for the estimated cost of fuel over the next 30 day period and estimated sale of kilowatt hours.She says strong conservation and increasing daylight will help to bring the costs down.Avalanches took out the Snettisham line last Wednesday, April 16th, severing Juneau from the vast majority of its cheap hydroelectric power.

Listening to NPR again I heard this interesting story: (shooting my right wing cred)

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89893155

To sum it up...Biofuels are wiping out the worlds food supplies...Thats right! These idiots are wiping out food crops and destroying rain forests to make fuel that is more expensive, not as efficient, and that makes a much bigger environmental footprint than fossil fuels...The bottom line is that you are being taken to the cleaners for falling in to this crap...Even the hybrid cars have a negative overall energy value from the amount of petroleum used to make the plastic in them as well as the energy used to charge their batteries.