Government Regulation and Crony Capitalism is Keeping Thousands in Florida without Power
by Tho Bishop Almost two weeks have passed since Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida, yet tens of thousands remain without power. With temperatures regularly eclipsing over 90 degrees, these outages are not only a grave inconvenience for Floridians cleaning...
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Govt Charade Doesnt Stop Your Municipal Power Racketeering
You have the parasites and the hosts. You have the FMPA, elected officials and lobbyists. Then you have the paying consumers. FMPA has been ripping municipal power customers off for years. It is essentially an handpicked oligarchy of cronies and sociopaths. It's been...
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Vero Beach Closes Power Plant and Gets Slightly Better Contract
Vero Beach, like Fort Pierce, has closed it's last power plant. TCPalm reports: The necessary process could take as much as seven months to complete, including switching off generators, gutting the building and laying off as many as 20 city employees. Last week, City...
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Vero Beach Delays Action on Utilities
Vero Beach and much of Indian River County is suffering from a tumor that is the Vero Beach municipal electric utility. Yet Vero city officials want to put a band-aid on the growing cancer. The city buys more than half of its electricity from Orlando Utilities. City...
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Vegas Casinos Fight to Buy Their Own Electricity. Why Can’t You?
There's a storm brewing in the desert. The big casinos on the Vegas Strip are fighting to buy their own power. Hoteliers including Wynn Resorts Ltd., MGM Resorts International and Las Vegas Sands Corp., which operate more than a dozen massive gambling palaces in...
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Vero Beach Exaggerating Math to Continue Monopolized Ripoff
Would the same happen in Fort Pierce? by Brian Barefoot The city of Vero Beach’s asking price of $64.5 million for the electric system in our town of Indian River Shores is not only a slap in the face to every utility customer, it is an example of the kind of mistaken...
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Vero Beach Electric Rates to go Down but Not by Much
After decades of ripping off electric customers in Indian River County the Vero Beach power provider is celebrating itself for lowering rates. The city could save about $126 million over the 14 years of the amended contract with Orlando Utilities Commission, City...
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Indian River Shores Trying to Escape Vero Beach Electric Racket
This is a classic example of the mafia selling protection to people who do not want their protection. They are forced to take it and pay for it. That is just what is happening in Indian River. The town of Indian River Shores wants to create their own municipal...
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FPL reducing rates again as FPUA customers continue to get hosed
What is good news for FPL customers means little to FPUA customers. FPL customers will see reductions in their electric rates while FPUA customers will still pay extra to help fund the wasteful City Hall. Florida Power & Light Company announced today it is planning to...
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Vero Beach Utilities Holds Shores Customers Hostage
The insanity of local monopolies on electricity continues to force high rates on all Indian River residents while holding a portion of them hostage. Vero Beach Utilities is negotiating a rate reduction with the Orlando Utility Commission - but that rate cut will still...
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