DIYbanter - View Single Post - How much are you really paying for electricity?

George

On 3/17/2012 5:26 PM, wrote:
On Mar 17, 4:10 pm, wrote:
On 3/16/2012 11:07 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

Tell that to the crew that is replacing a half dozen or so poles in my
neighborhood.

I've got 2 ploes in front of my house right now...new and old. Next
week they'll be transferring the wires.

I hop you don't have the same crew that did the pole in front of my
house. They came out and measure, marked and had all sort of painted
line and arrows. Then they proceeded to drill right into my sewer
line. Planted the pole and left. It was only a portion of the line
so I had some flow and it took weeks for the backup to happen.

Did they repair it? No, I had to have it done and put in a claim for
the $3500 job.

The new thing now to be very aware of is that some of the "new,
reinvented" companies collect information (probably from accident
reports) and send a bill claiming you damaged their equipment. I know
two very sensible people who got such bills. One slid into a curb in an
ice storm and another was pushed into a guard rail.

Nothing new about that. The electric utility here has
been charging as long back as I can remember for
damage to their equipment. You take out a pole with
your car, you pay. You drive into my house or car and you also pay.
How should it work in your universe?

Clearly you should pay if you damage something. If you get pushed into a
guard rail on I-80 and there are no utilities damaged you shouldn't pay
a "creative bill".