Idiocy

This just ain't right:

Charged if you do,charged if you don't
Conservation cited in rate-hike request by Yankee Gas Co.
PAM DAWKINS pdawkins@ctpost.com

Yankee Gas customers have apparently done too good a job with conservation, because the company is now asking for a rate hike based, in part, on a drop in use.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal vowed to fight the hike.
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Good luck. I hope the A.G. wins.

Maybe the gas company needs to think more along the lines of how they can lower their costs. Cut back salaries of overpaid execs and buy from cheaper sources rather than punish the consumers of their product.

Fuck 'em.