Energy Monopolies = Gas+Electric+Water as 1 PRIVATE Entity

[Gistok]

I live in central St. Clair Shores, and the number of power failures has really increased in the last 5 years... the last major one was from last winter, where we lost power for 4 days.

Because our neighborhood had just a brownout... we were put at the bottom of the repair list. But having a brownout only allows you dim lighting... all your appliances have to be shut off. The only saving grace for our neighborhood was when everyone went to bed at 11PM last winter, full power returned for those that were still up and you could run your furnace to bring the inside house temp back up to normal before people awoke at 6AM, and the brownout started all over again. At least my inside home temp never went below 60 degrees... unlike those that weren't famiiar with this trick.

Here in SCS with all the power outage of the last few years, the sales of home generators has probably grown to about 20% of the populace. On days with an outage, the drone of the generators sounds like everyone running their lawn mowers at the same time.

During wind and thunderstorms, the online DTE Outage Map lights up like a Christmas tree.

Ironically even though we never have a natural gas outage... the major suburban provider [[Consumers Energy) is replacing all the gas lines to the house here in SCS one street at a time.

I do believe that a lot of people have cut back in their stock of items in their home freezers, and who can blame them.

Our entire infrastructure, both water, electric, and roads, etc., has gotten worse... but sadly neither the politicians nor utilities is stepping up to the plate to do more that bandaid fixes. Even DTE's tree trimming is too little too late.

However, for me, the worst service history is Comcast Internet/Cable.