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- Latest post made by Robert Jones at Aug 03 14:45 UTC
Operation of the Las vegas natural gas utility
I believe that there was no corruption, no irregularities and nothing
illegal in the way the Las Vegas natural gas utility was run.
It was worse than that. The city government was incompetent. It lacked the
competence to run the natural gas utility in the best interests of the
citizens of Las Vegas. A competent government would not choose to recover a
big deficit in a short period of time. It is not responsible to clobber
the poor and the elderly on fixed incomes with excessively high bills and
then cut off their gas when they are unable to pay.
Last winter, getting a bill for one month's gas that exceeded five hundred
dollars ($500) made me angry. Getting a second bill for one month's gas
that exceeded five hundred dollars ($500) made me angrier. If we hadn't had
savings to (reluctantly) dip into, we could have had our gas cut off.
This winter we didn't turn on our gas furnace. We bought five little
electric heaters. We now use gas only for hot water. The electric bill is
high but nowhere near as high as last winter's gas bills.
Before next winter we will be using the sun to heat our water. Then we can
sever our connection to the Las Vegas gas utility. We will reduce our
heating costs further by installing a wood stove -- cast iron because it
holds heat better than steel and with a catalytic converter because that
ensures greater efficiency and less pollution.
It will be nice not to be concerned about the fact that Zia gas users in
other cities pay much less for the same amount of gas. And it will be great
not to pay the special tax that is levied only on city gas users.
Betty Quick, Las Vegas
install a solar hot water heaterbe using no gas from the
I am willing to believe that there were no irregularities and nothing
illegal in the way the Las Vegas natural gas utility was run. divorce
ourselves completely
Hallelujah Sister!
Betty, I would just add a little more civic mindedness to your wonderfully
stated recipe for change: it's time for a change of government as well. I
would recommend Tony Marquez as the mayoral candidate most likely to bring
competence back to governance. And, if you live in Ward 3 - vote for Andrew
Feldman for city council. If both these fine gentlemen are voted in to office,
together with Diane Moore we would have a city council to be proud of.
Kevin Tracy, Las Vegas
By way of introduction:
I'm pretty new to Meadow City, but am enjoying every minute. My partner and I
moved here because of Las Vegas' beauty and lack of preciousness. Folks here
are just doing their thing without too much correctness corrupting our peace of
mind. There seemed to be "elbow room" despite being a city. The historical
thing can get a little hysterical, but generally that's a good thing. I'm
wondering though what our vision of the future is here on the edge of the
Rockies. What about the youth of this fair city? If the economic development
of Las Vegas is tourist dependent, aren't we dooming our children to lives of
serving the rich just like in Santa Fe? The candidates for city government
talk about inviting "green industries" to our city, what exactly does that
really mean? The Economic Development Corporation talks about enticing more
franchises to our city, is that the kind of economic development we need or
want?
Anyway, being new here I am probably best at asking questions. I don't know
all the complexities of life in Las Vegas. I don't really get Fiesta for
example. Also, what's up with all the empty buildings? So I look forward to
this electronic conversation with you all. I hope to learn and to get even
more excited about my beautiful city and the people in it.
Interesting points that are being brought up here. Do any <a href="http://lasvegas.nyctourist.com/las-vegas-hotels-casinos.php">las vegas hotels</a> have natural gas problems?
Egads, a spammer. blogger7 wrote: > Interesting points that are being brought up here. Do any <a href="http://lasvegas.nyctourist.com/las-vegas-hotels-casinos.php">las vegas hotels</a> have natural gas problems? > > > Logan Abbott > > Info about blogger7: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/GN621G3tLvjT2YH25tOEW > > This topic's messages may be viewed at: http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/2oqX4mQl7coBYyHuSMihWV