12-21-2009, 10:26 AM
yep this is what you get when you have no free market for energy. Wouldn't it be a different place if people could buy and sell energy into the system, and purchase KW at a spot price. Now I am not talking about ENRON because that was criminal, but an honest OPEN system of buying and selling would change the market place entirely. "Off the Grid" is nice but, that fails to be a scalable system, networks increase productivity, hence an electrical "grid" is needed for a modern society, however the structure currently with central production is outmoded and based on the power of these large businesses. I am positive if there was an free market for energry EVERYONE would have windmills, solar cells, etc all over to generate some revenue for themselves, instead the only thing you can do is reduce your bill down to the "legal minimum". the HECO+HELCO+MELCO Cartel has the state and PUC in the palm of their "hands". How else could they get away with the bogus "fuel surcharge" , i mean since they cant raise they KW/h rate without "approval". why does anything outside of PUNA matter? Hawaii? because our government has sold us out to foreign interests and global interests, what these people think actually does matter to us here! If you know anything about the history of Hawaii your should know that outside forces have shaped this place more than internal forces..