Action Alert: National Fuel Rate Hike Meeting

The State of NY Public Services Commission has called for a hearing on the proposed rate increase for Nation Fuel and the delivery of natural gas.

Why? According to all the news on the gas glut the price of natural gas is as cheap as it's going to get. It could go lower. Depends if the capitalists want to destroy the environment by fracking any more.

And the gas is a crappier quality of gas if it is the fracked gas. I recently had my stove repaired because some components were having problems associated with a “low quality” of gas. I mentioned to the repairman (he was a male) that it could be propane derived from fracking wells and his face just lit up like he had an “A-HA” eureka moment.

And why do the rates need to be increased? Because Nation Fuel is a Wall Street owned company and Wall Street is demanding more profits.

Right. Higher profits on crappy quality gas that is ruining people's appliances.

First of all, all utilities should be owned by the communities that they serve. They should be run and owned by the people, for the people.

Second, we should be looking into renewable energy for electricity because of the current state of the global warming crisis. California is in a five year (? or is it six now?) drought and the Mid-West is getting pretty bad too. (Maybe they should run irrigation off the Mississippi river? All that fertilizer runoff from upriver could fertilize the farmland down river instead of feeding the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone.) So we need to stop drilling for oil, gas, and fracking wells.

Third spawns off of the second line – All energy producers should be owned and run by all the people that they serve, not Wall Street. They should be publicly owned and run, not private for profit enterprises.

So, if you are a National Fuel customer and receive your gas from them, go to the meeting on June 28, 2018 at either 4 PM or 7 PM at the Town of Amherst Municipal Building (AKA the Towm Hall) and let them kNOw your opinion on paying more money for a cheaper quality and crappier gas.