If your phone bill has doubled since deregulation you must not have
made a lot of long-distance calls in 1984 (and by the way, the price of
an average item has almost doubled since 1984 according to the Consumer
Price Index). Here in NY there are phone companies that offer
UNLIMITED long-distance (U.S. only) for a pretty low flat fee. And
back then they were charging extra for touch-tone service, call-waiting
didn't yet exist, and you were probably still paying extra for extra
phones...

I doubt that moving from Con Ed to Econnergy for electricity would save
much, but I'd think that any savings is worthwhile.

The green power option is there probably by law, but in any case if it
costs them more to buy solar/hydro/wind then they're passing along the
extra cost.

Shaun Eli
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