This was almost a full-page ad that ran in the Miami Herald yesterday. How dumb to they think we are? If anything, this ad would make people who skim the news sit up and notice that something is up. What is REALLY up? Read Daniel Shoer Roth today. He says:
In the critical debate over FPL's rate increase, its secret executive compensation policy and its questionable links to Florida's regulators, there has been no discussion about the core of the problem: The electric company is flying high in the chopper while its customers are down in the real world.
The only good thing about the ad, they say at the bottom that the customers are not paying for it.
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I know you don't appreciate "off topic" posts, but I think your readers should take a look at Jim Defede's column from yesterday to put this whole Mayor Alvarez thing in to perspective.
http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.carlos.alvarez.2.1182486.html
The raises might have been ill timed, but are they a re-callable offense?
You be the judge after comparing him to the others (Manny, Alex, Joe, Xavier, Raul, etc...)
The Miami Herald should watch out what they wish for, because, as my grandfather would say, you will most certainly get it.
m
Wow. M is off topic. Does he/she work for FPL and want to get us off topic, too?
Or is M working for the Mayor and is looking for happy news?
M there is no Happy news with FPL or the county government these days.
Genius: I think FPL is getting tweaked a little bit. May be we should do an Eye ON Miami version of the same ad.
I just passed an FPL job on Douglas Road in the Gables. Five trucks with crew. The trucks had something like "Midwest Electrical" on the side of the trucks, similar to the crews we get after a hurricane. Is there no company in South Florida that can handle this job? Doesn't it cost a whole bunch of money to bring in a crew with equipment and pay for travel and living allowance, etc. then to hire locally?
The whole thing got me to thinking: Why would FPL want to wire above ground? What is the advantage? Then it hit me. Old time masons always had an occasional structural weakness in their work so that there would always be work for future generations of masons. Does FPL want to have wires above ground so that each time we are hit with a hurricane, they will be able to secure FEMA dollars to replace these lines? Are they, in fact, securing their future and that of their shareholders? And, above all, why should they support solar and wind and spend money on helping people become power self-sufficient? Well, there's no future money in that!
The other M
My wires are below ground, I had power in two days, neighbors without below ground waited weeks.
Oh, FPL wants FACTS?
FACT:
The only reason FPL wants to increase the base rate is to increase their already excellent profit margin. They are not using this rate hike to improve service or infrastructure, they are using it to make their stockholders even richer.
FACT:
If they charge us more for the service, the service will cost us more. Claiming a temporary reduction in fuel charges offsets the increase is specious; fuel costs are going to go back up. Care to bet on the possibility of the base rate going back down once fuel rates start climbing again?
The only good thing about the ad, they say at the bottom that the customers are not paying for it.
Genius?
Who pays the shareholders? We do. The ratepayers.
Agree with last post. What a crock of #$@ to claim that shareholders are paying for the ad, not ratepayers. Let's identify exactly which shareholders are paying for the ad, FPL. Show us the cancelled checks, you boobs. Otherwise if it is part of the corporate marketing expenses, tell us where the revenue comes from to pay for the ads. Maybe from PSC commissioners?
Let me get this logic straight - if base rates go up, customer rates go down. I wonder if the converse is true then. Puleeez, they were doing much better brainwashing when Wragg & Casas was on the PR job. I hope the public understands they are paying for these ads!
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