Comments on: Your Money: Rate Increase For Gulf Power Customers

By: Chasity Larson

Chasity Larson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:33:25 +0000

This is rediculas! I heard a report that 1 in 7 americans are on food stamps. The average family can’t afford this crap! What incentive does Gulf Power have to reduce its own cost and stop using oil? I’ve been looking into solar energy. I saw 1 report that said the sun produces enough energy in 1 day to power the Earth for 1 year? Also making your own solar pannel greatly reduces the cost of solar energy and there not that hard to make. A home security company has a pilot program in California where they are insalling solar energy in people’s homes in exchange for those people to purchase their power from them. We the people should be able to choose where we get our power from. Maybe then they would have some incentive to be more cost effective.

By: Citizens of Penscola Blog

Citizens of Penscola Blog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:36:25 +0000

Go here to follow what others in the community are saying and see what you can do to get involved! The citizens of Pensacola cannot take ANOTHER rate increase! There were already 2 hikes in 2009 before we received our December 09 bills.

By: bright idea

bright idea — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:27:06 +0000

It seems we all get charged more and more fees, extra charges here and there! What recourse do we have? On top of that we also get taxed on the fees and charges! Speaking of power bills, what is up with that $10.00 CUSTOMER SERVICE CHARGE EVERY MONTH? What is that for exactly. Who approved that charge?

Everyone seems to be on the fees wagon (banks, credit card companies, etc.)…but they say we should not be too upset about it because it’s just “a little amount”. What harm can it do? Geeezzzzzzz! We already have the energy efficient items in our homes and the cost is still too high for electricity. You don’t honestly think the fees will stop after the power plant is paid for do you?

If fuel costs are going down, why is our bill going up? They seem to have justified another one, again. Something is wrong with this picture.

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:45:36 +0000

The reason that Alabama’s power bills are going down and ours are going up is only because Alabama’s Public Service Commission is not in bed with the utilities and still serves its citizens. Governor Christ just announced a statewide probe on government corruption. I think they should start out with a hard look at Florida’s PSC.

By: Century girl

Century girl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:34:31 +0000

It appears that Gulf Power is doing this just because “they can “!
If the coal costs are down, is salary increases and bonuses the justification for this?

By: What?

What? — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:59:37 +0000

What I find interesting is Alabama power (a sister company to Gulf Power) is getting a 4% DECREASE????? What is wrong with this picture? Typical!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:40:03 +0000

I remember when Electric Co-op’s were put in place and the whole theory behind them was, to operate on low cost govt money and were not allowed by law to make a profit. Now folks that has changed, They’re in the water business, don’ftorget cable T V, and they’re looking for more things to get involved in while we sit by and elect board members that simply vote yes to every everything the local manager comes up with,while our power bills keep going out of sight. Maybe we need to go to a directors meeting and tell these folk’s we have had enough, They should not compete with the Southern Company, They operate on a completely different set of rules..

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:28:23 +0000

Coal, the main fuel used by gulf power has fallen to 60 to 80 dollars per ton……thats down from last years 160 to 200 dollars per ton and the reason given for our last rate hike.

By: STRESSED AND STRUGGLING

STRESSED AND STRUGGLING — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:48:23 +0000

SO DISGUSTED!!! I WONDER IF MR. DAVID RATCLIFFE OR SUSAN STORY WILL BUY MY CHILD CHRISTMAS!!!!????? SINCE THEY MAKE ALL THE MONEY AND ALL THE POOR FOLKS HAVE TO PAY THEM AND WE CAN BARELY GET FOOD ON THE TABLE?????????????

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:29:35 +0000

At one time the Florida PSC protected consumer rights, but now all they have become is an industry support group. They seem to be worried that if they don’t let the utilities make sufficient profit, the utilities will pull out and stop providing service. Their definition of sufficient profits seems to keep ballooning all the time. It doesn’t seem to me that the state government’s job is to protect big businesses from the consumers, but that is how it seems to work now.