Un-Fair Energy Ohio

Once again, AEP-Ohio wants the PUCO to be its lapdog. The present "market-based" pricing method will require AEP to reduce its prices on June 1st. No surprise, AEP is instead asking the PUCO to approve "capacity charge" pricing, which is essentially a much larger shopping tax ($355 vs. the current $20) levied against customers who choose a competitive supplier, and would at the same time work to keep prices higher for non-shopping customers.

AEP's lobbying arm, FairEnergyOhio.Org, is running an ad which paints a very different picture. In the ad, AEP is portrayed as a cute little girl with a lemonade stand in her yard. AEP's competitors are shown as big, bad men in suits who steal the girl's lemonade and set up their own stand across the street. Poor little AEP!

This is the same sort of slimy, we're-lying-but-you're-stupid advertising favored by Karl Rove, the Koch brothers, 60Plus.Org, and all the other Super-PAC assholes. After these spots run, I wanna take a shower.

AEP is the big dog in this fight, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

You can comment on this issue by going to www.PUCO.ohio.gov and clicking "File a Public Comment". Make reference to Case# 10-2929-EL-UNC. Tell the PUCO to retain its present market-based pricing rules.