American Savings alters financials

American Savings Bank said yesterday it will take a charge of $36 million in the second quarter as a result of changes to its balance sheet.

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Have you seen your electric bill?? I have a 1 bedroom apartment which is occupied by just my wife and I and the current statement is $280 dollars. This means we are paying over $9 dollars a day for just electricity. In 1 year according to our statement it has gone up $100 dollars. We use to have 3 people at that time in our apartment and even though 1 has leftt it still has gone up that much. I have changed all light bulbs to energy savings type and installed a timeclock on my water heater but with the Energy cost adjustment that they have levied against me on my bill it is $130. Now I see that they have made a profit of $34 million in the past quarter. What can the consumers do there no alternative electric company that we can change to, they have got us my the ++++s. How can the utility commision let this company continue to screw us. I realize that oil prices are going up and really the handwriting was on the wall decades ago when they should have changed to coal which would have been cheaper and better for us and the enviroment.

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Have you seen your electric bill?? I have a 1 bedroom apartment which is occupied by just my wife and I and the current statement is $280 dollars. This means we are paying over $9 dollars a day for just electricity. In 1 year according to our statement it has gone up $100 dollars. We use to have 3 people at that time in our apartment and even though 1 has leftt it still has gone up that much. I have changed all light bulbs to energy savings type and installed a timeclock on my water heater but with the Energy cost adjustment that they have levied against me on my bill it is $130. Now I see that they have made a profit of $34 million in the past quarter. What can the consumers do there no alternative electric company that we can change to, they have got us my the ++++s. How can the utility commision let this company continue to screw us. I realize that oil prices are going up and really the handwriting was on the wall decades ago when they should have changed to coal which would have been cheaper and better for us and the enviroment.

That doesn't seem right. Our bill was $292 and we have 5 people living in a 3,000 sq. ft home. We also changed all our bulbs and we have a solar water heater. Does it save us that much? Our bill is $90 more than a year ago.