AEP Prices to Rise

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Greeting salitations. Welcome my friends to the Thursday ED issue
of The Power Hour. I'm choked, uglish, you know who
you are.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
We take it.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Come now, we get one hour together, which means I
talk really fast and you you.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Must listen even faster.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
My number eight two one nine eight eight six A
two one WTV and or eight hundred and six' TEN.
Wtv and now is not the. Time now is not
the time to be putting the financial screws to the.
People too much, turmoil too many, unknowns too much, uncertainty
the tariff. Situation you know what's what's gonna. Happen we were.

(00:38):
Expecting we know prices will probably go up on some,
things but not nearly as. BAD i don't believe as
what the media is trying to. GENERATE i do know
that one of the big stories today and listening to
people trying to uh listen the different pronunciation temu temou.
Tamu i've heard. Today i've heard sheen shine and sheenne.
Today but the cheap stuff as of next, week the twenty,

(01:03):
fifth is what they're. Saying with the tariffs going in,
place you'll no longer be able to get that leather
trench coat with the mink lining for three dollars seventy nine,
Cents so if you want, it you better order. Now.
Yep they're messing with ground level economies, now and that
is where people will start getting. Uncomfortable the thing of

(01:23):
it is is, everything everything that affects the consumer can't
go either. Way there are plenty of people out here
right now who know we're gonna have some we're gonna
have some. Challenges they're turning on the news every day
and hearing about how bad it's going to. Be and,
AGAIN i don't think it's going to be. Necessary In,
vidio for. EXAMPLE i don't know Where nvidia clothes, today

(01:47):
but they were, leading they were leading on The. Nasdaq
they're a technology, company they're AN ai, company they're a
virtual reality. Company they made the announcement that the tariffs
we're going to cost them SOMETHING i don't, know was
it fifty fifty five billion or something like, that five
hundred and fifty five, billion and the stock, dropped.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Just dropped like a.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Rock and it was one of the indicators people, say oh,
no this is what's going to. Happen and AS i said,
yesterday AS i say, today it's not going to. Happen
they've got THIS h TWO o. Chip i'm not really
sure what the chip, does but Apparently, China china was
buying a lot of, them and you, Know china is

(02:35):
trying to fight back against the terraffs. Too today they
RETURNED i think it was Three boeing seven thirty seven.
Jets they sent them. BACK i guess they had a.
RECEIPT i don't, know but but they sent him. Back
and it's that kind of stuff is going to. Happen
this is like financial strategy, warfare it really. Is and

(03:01):
when you're not able to get your cheap stuff anymore
from whether it's you, know THE tmu Or thechine or
the Or walmart Or buyer Or, Target target is dropping
like five thousand items from their inventory to try to
keep the store. Going they don't want to have to

(03:22):
worry about the import taxes or anything like.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
That so.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
When it gets to that point and you, know you
got to fill the gas, tank you got to buy the,
groceries you got to, pay you, know for the monthly,
bills and your household your kids need school clothes and
birthday parties and all that kind of. Stuff now is
not the time to put the screws to. Us and
Yet june, first your electric bill goes up here in Central.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Ohio did you know that AP.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I believe they set it on average about twenty seven
dollars a. Month is the kind of increase that you
should be prepared to. SEE i know mine's going to
be higher than, that because it always. Is whatever they
say the average is gonna, be mine's going to be.
HIGHER i, have always will always contend THAT i think

(04:16):
it was a mistake with any utility became a profit.
Center anything that you need to live became a profit,
center something for stockholders or governments to control.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
And hold over your.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
HEAD i say governments because of course here In, columbus,
municipally they've got the water in the sewer which you
need to. Live you must, bathe you must, wash you
must drink. Water but the government controls it and they
will cut you off if you don't pay that. Bill

(04:57):
you got to have a warm house in the. Winter
you got to be able to at least run a
fan in the heat of. Summer got to have the,
Electricity you got to have the natural. Gas you gotta.
HAVE i don't like the fact that they are profit.
CENTERS i don't like the fact that When duratio wins
come through and knock over all of the power, lines

(05:18):
because the company has been very lackluster in putting lines,
underground instead of keeping, up we had to get a
rate increase to pay for. IT i don't like the fact,
THAT i, hear, well because demand was lower than we,
thought we're going to have to raise rates next year
in order to compensate for that the lower demand on.

(05:38):
It AND i don't like the fact that the next
year they, say because demand was higher last, year we're
going to have to raise rates. Again and what are
they saying, Now they're, saying because of the the, advent the,
creation the addition of these monoliths like data, centers there's
an increased, need draw want use of. Electricity so your

(06:05):
bill and my bill will be going. UP i think
this is. RIDICULOUS i think this is. UNFAIR i think
this should be, somehow some way challenged through some. Entity
Public Utilities commission Of, OHIO i would think might step.
UP i, mean we've got an administration in the State
house right now that wants to worry about whether or
not your kid has a cell phone in. School how

(06:26):
about worrying about whether or not you are pricing people
out of the ability to have electricity in their, home
and what happens when they, can't what happens when the
utility bills just go sky. High i've already what is
This april first two water bills at my. House i've
already had a grand go out in water bills to

(06:48):
the city Of, columbus five hundred and ten dollars the
first time, around and the second quarter was four and
forty seven.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Dollars that's.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Water it falls from the, sky one thousand.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Dollars it's Just. April but they want to raise these.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Rates my question to you, is and you can tell
me If i'm crazy or. Not that's why we have
the phone NUMBER a two one nine eight eighty, SIX
a two ONE. Wcv and instead of making, me instead
of making, you instead of making us pay higher rates
because data centers need more, electricity why the hell are

(07:29):
we surcharging the data. Centers why Isn't, Google why Isn't?
Intel why is It? Microsoft why Isn't? Amazon why aren't
they paying a surcharge on their bill for the increased
use of? Electricity why does this fall on my. Shoulders
why is it that if the construction crew has happened

(07:53):
to me the other, night breaks through a gas line
AND i can't pick up my prescriptions that the pharmacy
because the far he had to close because of a gas.
Leak why DON'T i get any kind of inconvenience, fee
but you get a late charge If i'm a day
laid on my. Bill this is stuff we need to.
Survive this is a. Luxury this is a you, KNOW

(08:14):
i went out and bought A lamborghini. Crap this is
getting from day to day and keeping your family.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Alive.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Stuff question answer not really a, question but a, hypothetical
kind of a trick. Question if we have we, electricity,
water basic necessities for human, life we all pay a
certain tax, rate and if somebody can't afford those, things
they get them. Anyway is that what you're talking.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
About i'm not talking about, Communists and know WHAT i think.
This if government wants to, control whether it's some municipal
ownership like the water, is or whether it's through an
organization like The Public Utilities commission Of ohio that oversees
if they want a rate, increase they go to THE,
PUCO a government. Entity the government entity decide allegedly on
behalf of the, people whether or not they, deserve should

(09:03):
have and get that rate. Increase So, no but if
we're going to have all, that THEN i believe that
it should be you, know the cost of maintaining the, operation, retrieving,
generating distributing the, power the cost.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Of the labor to do.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
It it shouldn't be about you, know how much money
can we make for the. Stockholders if we're going to
pay the, bills it should not be a profit. Center
and if we're going to pay the, bills it should
be our bills and Not microsoft's. Bill let them pay for.
It why the hell are we killing farmland all over

(09:40):
the state of ohioa solar farms if the bill's gonna
go up because you keep bringing we're bringing in new,
business and this brings in new. Jobs good for. Them
but it shouldn't cost me more money for somebody else
to come in and have their, prosperity should.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
It, No and if a company is worth you, know
eight hundred billion, dollars they can pay their own electric
you would.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
THINK i JUST i never like.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
THAT i never like the, uh the idea of like
The Cleveland browns won a new, stadium so the taxpayers
are gonna have to pay, It, like, yeah you can afford.
It if you can't deal with, them.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Here's the deal with. That and this is off, topic
but since you brought it, up if the state Of
ohio is going to financially participate in the development of
a new covered stadium for whether It's cincinnati Or, cleveland
doesn't matter to. Me there must be a profit for
the people of the state Of, ohio just like ownership
of The Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Packers we need to.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Profit from from the ticket, sales from, concessions from, parking
from everything. Else that money needs to go back into
The Ohio General, fund just like lottery. Dollars if you're
gonna make us pay for it you want us, to
then we need to get something out of it aside
from just having a nifty news stadium for the. Team

(11:02):
ya team go go rah. Rah we that's, nice but
it's not a. Necessity we need to handle necessities, first
and if we if we, don't if we don't agree on,
that then you probably won't be inviting me to the
house for a barbecue this. SUMMER a two one nine
eight SIX a two ON tv and Maybe i'm just
fired up all about.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
NOTHING i don't. Know you tell, Me.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Debbie you're on The Legacy Retirement group dot com phone
line Tight.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Hi you're preaching to the choir about the paying for
the stadiums and. Such also you're talking about the rate
increases on the electricity and trying to keep your houses
cooler in the, summer et. Cetera and they're on your
beloved west side On burgess And South terrace and all
the streets around. There they're cutting down all the trees

(11:49):
that used to keep the neighborhoods, cool so now they're
getting all the sun during the sun summertime and are
going to be. Baking and they have turned the hilltop
into such a slum looking place with all the torn
up sidewalks that are just now. Gravel and it breaks

(12:10):
my heart every TIME i go.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Intown who's tearing?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Them is it the City forestry office who's tearing them?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Down and why, oh the city has cut all the
trees down off the boulevards and any of their ride
of ways Along South Terrace, Avenue South.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Burgess and, such because they're going to put in bushes
for a rain garden in those.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Areas you, Know i've seen those little rain garden, things
and it's not that the concept is, impractical but the
design of What i've seen so far is.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Ugly they're. Ugly they look, like are you.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Walking down the street and you fall into a, big you,
know brickline. Pit, correct THAT'S i guess that makes more
sense to them than actually just updating the sewer system
in the city Of.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Columbus.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Correct and they've cut, down LIKE i, said they've cut
down all these majestic maple, trees oak treeze anything that
they they're even going, up turned down people's fences to
where the trees have grown part way into the fence
or there they trespass over onto THE uh city's. Easement

(13:21):
they're turned down the. Fences, well it's.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just like they've done In Upper.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Arlington oh, wait no they. HAVEN'T i didn't know about, That.
Debbie thanks for letting me, know, THOUGH i appreciate. You
SIX a two one W Tv and, YEAH i JUST
i find it. OFFENSIVE i find it, silly AND i
find it worrisome that we the people just we get

(13:49):
noticed and we just accept. It where is the fight in?
Us where is the? Rise i'm Not i'm not seeing.
It i'm not hearing it's, Okay, well utility are going.
UP i Guess junior can't have dinner. Tonight what happened to?
Us why do we just accept this not only from

(14:09):
the companies that want the, money but from the entities
that are supposed to protect you from things like?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
This life is. Hard why allow somebody to make it?
Harder or, again maybe that's just.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
Me