If you live in Barnard, you recently experienced a power outage lasting almost three days while people outside of the city limits were still enjoying the electricity that powers their homes.
However, did you know that Westar plans to institute plans that will shove about $27 million of rate increases onto residential customers while cutting rates to businesses? The average customer may see rates increase as much as $15 a month in addition to the rate increases already inacted in the last two years.
I, frankly, would support dumping Westar and attaching to the Rolling Hills Cooperative power grid. Yes, power flickers at times, but if you keep your computers and TV's on battery backups, you will never notice...except when you get the bill that will most likely be less than half of what you pay under Westar's policies.
This would be a utility improvement we could actually benefit from.
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