Monmouth County Mayors Meet to Address JCP&L’s Shortcomings
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What a bunch of hypocrites.
The mayors all endorse, support and advance a monopoly system where We the People get to chose from one, and only one, utility delivery company (supply side is deregulated so you have options) and then they scream and yell and bad mouth the one delivery company that they allow to service their little Podunk towns, but do nothing to promote free market competition.
I suspect that none of these mayors, or anyone else in charge, want to see any real change. None are willing to face the threats of the BigCorporations (on the R side) or the BigUnions (on the D side) and so we the taxpayers/ratepayers can just continue to bend over and take it in the butt… but hey at least we can say our mayors have yelled at someone! They’ll point to some law somewhere, county, state, federal, etc as to why they can’t do a thing about the problem, blame someone else, divert the issues and in 2 months, we’ll celebrate the new year and all will be forgotten, again, until the next storm hits.
If I’m to believe that JCP&L is so bad, which Mayor will be first to tell PSEG, ConEd, or me and my new capital investment firm, that competition is welcome in their town and we can come start to offer a competing supply service? Which EvilCorporate suits will be willing to go battle with their shareholders and the other suits and their shareholders over delivery of electric/gas in a town and which of you with 401K retirement money invested in one of these companies is willing to lose a few bucks for a better delivery system? Which EvilUnion(s) will be willing to send their union workers to try to compete and steal customers from the other EvilUnion customers? Which EvilUnion is going to allow the new provider to pay less and offer fewer benefits than the old provider to offer a better rate, and better service, to the payer?
I have a few pennies to invest in the first company that will be competing directly with FirstEnergy in the Electric Delivery business in my home town of Long Branch. I’ll privately raise another a few more pennies from friends, family and neighbors who think free market competition great idea, And I even have a few bucks that I’ll donate to any mayor’s, R or D, re-election fund if there are at least two direct, serious, legitimate competitors to JCP&L in their town within a year from today.
Otherwise, if anyone needs candles or firewood or other supplies for the next storm – I hear Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider is a DoomsDayPrepper – I suggest going to his private home to seek relief next storm…. he’ll be happy to hear your JCP&L complaints while you’re there.
Mr. Hogan, you always bring to the table some very good and salient points.
However, JCP&L has been an inadequate service provider for years and years, yet they’ve always managed to slip under the radar. Enough is enough. They need to be held accountable.
Thanks I guess, I try… but good and salient points or not, my delivery is always terrible, in all aspects of life not just here at MMM. I’m rude, rash and most times completely incoherent in my rambling. For my personal shortcomings I really do apologize, but as always I also have hopes that someone with slightly better communication skills is willing and able to take on the system as we know it today.
… and now back to drawing up new and improved plans for when the power goes out, again. Good luck, my friends.
The length of the outage can be traced to the huge number of trees on power lines. The huge number of trees on power lines can be traced to huge numbers of selfish homeowners who refuse to trim back trees or remove them altogether when needed. The mayors need to join forces with the power company to keep the public at large from being victimized by the recalcitrance of these homeowners. If cost is an issue, surely it pales in comparison to the costs of inaction.
The above comment says it all.
There should be no tree (of a certain size) within 25 feet of a residential structure, power line or street.
We need to stop our love affair with trees and start realizing the damage these old, non-maintained trees can cause, including loss of life.
Those trees which have multiple trunks are unstable and need to be removed.
I have had enough of trees (not even mine) coming down and hitting my house, my pool (that was my tree) and my fence line.
Those who love trees can replace these old, 100′ plus trees with nice dwarf trees.
Perhaps the easiest way for government to get this done is through the property insurance companies, who have taken a bloodbath in this storm. Maybe the private sector insurance companies will wise up and charge rates based upon the number of large trees in one’s yard. Now that might encourage some to get rid of these overgrown would be firewood.
Perhaps people will join together and create not for profit independent power authorities either to control power distribution or to set up a not for profit cooperative to generate power utilizing individual home natural gas powered generators. Buying these generators in bulk would probably save a small fortune for each individual homeowner in the power cooperative. Also, no overhead wires to be hit by trees.
And yes, I do own stock in electric utilities. Thankfully neither PSE&G nor JCP&L.
Maybe all these Mayors should stop wasting money on expensive and inefficient solar panels or windmills, and use that money to bury the power lines.
Tom, are you advocating for more government intervention to solve the problem? Don’t most of these small town mayors already have their code enforcement departments trying to charge private property owners for a permit to take down trees, on the property they own? And I think in some towns, it might be illegal to remove a tree.
JH – I thought I was clear that insurance companies might be the best way to “persuade” homeowners to cut down trees too close to power lines or residences.
As for any municipality that tries to prevent these dangers from being removed, I hope they have good liability insurance protection. They could easily be charged with gross negligence in failing to address dangers to life and property; especially if they attempt to impede efforts to prevent future damage or loss of life.
Trees that are too old and too large are dangerous in residential areas. They belong in forests. Laws that prevent a homeowner from protecting his/her property need to be thrown out.
You want to pave paradise and put up a parking lot? I think not! Put the wires underground. The tree are aesthetically pleasing, adding value to one’s home NOT electric wires!! Bury the wires- not the trees, oh foolish ones! Otherwise move to “Statin Igaland” aka Staten Island, no trees or grass. Bennies go home
@”The length of the outage can be traced to the huge number of trees on power lines. The huge number of trees on power lines can be traced to huge numbers of selfish homeowners who refuse to trim back trees or remove them altogether when needed.” And the other uniformed comments.
My trees are drastically cut back every two or three years by tree companies hired by JCP&L. Yet nearby roads with much fancier houses see no such trimming. And even when the arborists cut, that is just for electric lines, not cable or telephone. And when trees fall on those, they pull down the entire pole, transformer and insulators. Really intelligent, huh?
What else would anyone expect from a company paid for burned-out streetlamps it never replaces?