PPL's power line decisions are based on best interests of custo...

W hen you want to heat up a midnight snack in the microwave, or turn on the air conditioner for relief from a hot summer's day, you count on electricity.

[goon]

What a load of bull. Where is "best interest of customers, communities " in PPL's corporate by-laws? PPL is legally bound to one thing- maximize profits for shareholders.

If PPL really had the best interests of customers and communities in mind (along with the environment) they would tell people to USE MUCH LESS ENERGY, have low power homes, invest in off grid solar power, etc.PPL wants you to keep being a power hog and they want continued sprawl so they make more money.

Remember, PPL burns dirty coal to make all of that power. Coal burning contributes to air pollution, climate change, water pollution and ground pollution. The ash is considered toxic and some of the ash dumps are considered security threats for the nation .

Speaking of metering, why don't you allow net metering PPL? Customers with solar panels on their homes can watch their meters spin BACKWARDS under ideal conditions.

[Oh Yeah]

You're saying that people who live in the country-side where this line is intruding can't today heat up a midnight snack in the microwave, or turn on the air conditioner for relief from a hot summer's day? Disturbing a watershed and putting a substation in a creek is not a necessity. There is power there today, reroute it and pay the extra few bucks for these people's tomorrow. Heartless and cruel in the name of a few bucks, big deal!

[Kidding Who]

PPL gladly canned over 200 people and did away with its company picnic to fatten it's bottom line. The shortest distance for this line is through natural resources and countryside, that's the only benefit and it's not for any people who don't own PPL stock. What else are you lying about, PPL??

[bonzo]

why is this on the mcall opinion page? its not opinion, its corporate rhetoric getting free advertising space. no one feels bad for PPL, and this isn't the place for them to share their 'hardluck' stories.

[URDUMB]

Oh Yeah wrote:

You're saying that people who live in the country-side where this line is intruding can't today heat up a midnight snack in the microwave, or turn on the air conditioner for relief from a hot summer's day? Disturbing a watershed and putting a substation in a creek is not a necessity. There is power there today, reroute it and pay the extra few bucks for these people's tomorrow. Heartless and cruel in the name of a few bucks, big deal!

Guess who ends up paying the extra bucks to reroute the line and/or reroute on the abandon train line?

Ratepayers do..

[Get Real]

goon wrote:

PPL is legally bound to one thing- maximize profits for shareholders.

Remember, PPL burns dirty coal to make all of that power. Coal burning contributes to air pollution, climate change, water pollution and ground pollution. The ash is considered toxic and some of the ash dumps are considered security threats for the nation .

It's in their best interest to maximize the profits to reward shareholders who supply equity with the expectation of a return. It's kinda how our economy works.

Coal is much less expensive as a fuel source than natural gas. In the end, the extreme environmental wackiness is no where near proven by science and places an undue burden on the consumer.

Climate change. Which not too long ago was "global warming" but since we are cooling a little the moonbats have altered the "sky is falling" rhetoric.

Corporations feed America. Wackadoodle knee jerk enviro-wackos would prefer that we all lived in mud huts with no consumption of fossil fuels.

[Simpleman]

The five previous posts are why our country is in the shape it is in.

What should we do? Let government run it? Revert back to the stone age?

Get a life and be part of a "planned" future. I said planned, not perfect.

[Kodiak]

Lets all take a few days vecation & go campin! Less buissnes using electricity & less home using elelctricity. Why not hit them in the pocketbook. Bring the candles!

[A Driver]

I'm against nuclear energy and transmission lines, but want my a/c, laptop, widescreen television, wii and 5-car garage in my 5 bedroom McMansion....

[Uninformed]

What are the safe and acceptable levels of emf levels in one's home and yard?

I'm getting 200-300 on a Gaussmeter.