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...
Fort Pierce UA and Vero Beach Utilities Pull Same Rip Off
Economist Dom Armentano suggests that Vero Beach consider bankruptcy in order to lower electricity rates in the Vero Beach area. Armentano points out that Vero Beach Utilities charges exorbitantly high electricity rates in order to avoid raising taxes. It’s no secret...
The Psuedo-Tax of FPUA
by D. Bradley Nelson Introduction Every American business and household is directly and indirectly impacted by the seemingly never-ending rise in public utility prices (including airports, electricity, gas, post, public transport, rail, seaports, telecommunications,...
Monopolized Mess of Electric Utility Hurting Indian River Residents
When busybodies try to plan what other people should buy messes arise and Indian River County is a cluster of messes. First Indian River Shores is suing Vero Beach to choose their own electric grid when their contract with Vero Beach expires. Vero Beach, of course,...
FPUA Cuts Electric Rates by Only $3 per Month
FPUA has thrown the Fort Pierce customers a small bone and is reducing rates by $3/month. The authority’s board of directors last week approved the lower rates because it spent 2.7 percent less on fuel used to produce electricity. The average electric bill of $116.84...
Vero Beach Poised to Benefit from Market NOT FMPA Rates
Vero Beach residents may soon benefit from competition for electricity. City officials are playing the market this summer, gambling that bidding out bulk power-supply contracts results in lower electric bills. Odds are in the city’s favor. Vero can get a better price...
Vero Beach to Bid Out for Electric Suppliers
Vero Beach is proving that a FPUA monopoly is not needed. First they voted out their over-priced city utility so that it may be sold. Unfortunately the same cartel charging Vero customers over-priced electric rates is the same cartel that FPUA is in cahoots with. Now...
Indian River Shores Suing Vero Beach Over FPUA-like Scheme
Residents in Indian River have had enough of paying extra for electricity to Vero Beach utilities. Neighboring Indian River Shores is suing to get freak of being ripped off. As expected, Indian River Shores last week refiled its complaint against Vero in...
How Monopoly Stiffles Innovation in Electricity
Economics professor Peter Klein discusses how government regulations and monopoly privileges stifle innovation in electricity. https://youtu.be/QNKCvB5DYAE?t=1631 Source: Lions of Liberty Podcast Ep. 108: Peter Klein – How the Government Influences Science &...
How Fort Pierce Taxes Non-Residents
You may not live in the city limits of Fort Pierce but you could be paying Fort Pierce taxes. Under the FPUA's 2015 budget FPUA will direct over $5,500,000 dollars to the Fort Pierce general fund. Fort Pierce is using FPUA as a means to tax people outside the city...