This is what is wrong

[salimbag]

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/big-money-stake-power-executives

Ever wonder why our electricity is so expensive? Why are these people worth so much, and we are worth so little? This is a good reason to have an electric co-op, like Kauai.

[Cleita]

1. Coop or municipally run. Either way, that's the way utilities should operate.

The Edisons and PG & E's need to go the way of the dinosaur. I once belonged to a telephone cooperative and it was the best serviced and least expensive phone service I ever had.

[salimbag]

2. That's the way things used to be

The privatization of what should be local govt functions has been a slow process, but TPTB are almost there...full control of everything. Government by corporation!

[msongs]

3. HECO needs to be run by the state for the benefit of the people not shareholders...

back when fuel oil was the only game in town a centralized system made at least some sense. now that every building on Oahu can have solar and be a power generator, supplemented by wind and some fuel oil for night time, a for profit at any expense of the citizens is no longer the most judicial option

[salimbag]

4. Hawaii can provide it's own energy

The paper had several articles today concerning energy, with lots of blather from NextEra, a Florida based company. They think they are so much better than any stinking co-op hippies. Ask the people on Kauai about their electricity system, now that they have a co-op. Does the committee that runs the co-op pay their top people in the millions of dollars every year?

There is so much money floating around this deal, and every penny comes from the consumers. We are tired of getting screwed!