Portland Press Herald editorial One of the Democrats’s top agenda items, now that Congress is back in session, is to create a fund to promote renewable energy and conservation by diverting money that was going to oil companies. That’s just one of many welcome changes in national energy policy that the new majority has pledged Read More
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Taking Control of Electric Bill, Hour by Hour
By David Cay Johnston New York Times news story Ten times last year, Judi Kinch, a geologist, got e-mail messages telling her that the next afternoon any electricity used at her Chicago apartment would be particularly expensive because hot, steamy weather was increasing demand for power. Each time, she and her husband would turn down Read More