Why should it not be free? Electricity is a RIGHT.

Food is a right, electricity is a right, driving a Lexus is a right....keep sticking it to whitey, Barry.

So is a high speed internet connection.

Thank god obama invented high speed internet

The scam appears to be taking advantage of people's political perceptions, doesn't it?

On the political spectrum, a person adopting what kind of political ideology would be more apt to believe and wanting to take advantage of a program "promising federal money to pay utility bills?"

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to correctly answer this question ;-)

@Bren -

Who's forcing anyone to patronize WE Energies?

Skimmer...... :+)
"Alert: A scam promising federal money to pay utility bills has been discovered. No such program exists, and payments made using bank routing numbers in the scam will be rejected. Please use your current banking information to make online payments."

@Hoffa - unless you live off the grid, which is an expensive undertaking subject to a lot of zoning here in the city, you have no choice but to patronize WE Energies. Is there another electric/gas company of which we're not aware that we can call for competitive pricing? So yes, we are forced in a way to use the products and services of WE Energies.

More class warfare

@Heather A -

Who's forcing you to use electricity at all? ;-)

OK, in all fairness, they do have a monopoly. And electricity is considered in today's world to be a necessity. And because of that, I agree that government should be able to limit executive compensation accordingly.

Would deregulation help? Michigan is deregulated and most of the state enjoys much lower rates than we do here.

@Hoffa, nobody is forcing anyone to use electricity... or eat, crap or breathe.

@Johnny -

The Amish, Mennonites, and others get along just fine without electricity.

@Hoffa - deregulation would be great! I thought that was already on the books, but I guess not because if we can talk competition for nearly every other aspect of American business, why not for our utilities?

I don't think so, the elderly seem to be scam targets too.

Greedy people and desperate people would be the two softest targets. Both of them have strong motivation to set aside suspicions and go along with what they want to hear.

@Richard - I think the reader doth protest too much. Are you off the grid? Do you use your municipal services like roads?

My point was that if we can choose between cable/satellite/nothing and we can decide which phone service suits us best and we can choose where to buy groceries because we have options, why does this same option not also apply to electricity and gas for powering our lives?

And by the way, who are you to decide what's too expensive for me or anyone else? If it's so cheap in your estimation, are you willing to foot the bill so more of us can get off the corporate greed of the grid?

RH can not see the difference between WeEnergies management and Government? Maybe elections?

jbw

Instead, make a turbine that runs on politician's hot air. Now there is a renewable and endless resource.

I forgot to mention, every time I need to go the WE Energies site I always search for "wienergies" and then click on their site in the search results. So, that's why their web analytics will always show search referals from "wienergies".

YEP!!