Meet Exelon CEO John Rowe…
John Rowe is the “Carbon Bandit.”
Here’s his JunkScience.com-commissioned bobblehead…
… and here’s the bobblehead being presented to his Rowe at last week’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer:
Will the real John Rowe please stand up… or at least stop rent-seeking?
The Great Light Bulb Robbery has been called off in Ohio due to consumer outrage.
In early October, Akron, OH-based First Energy planned to force consumers to buy two compact fluorescent lightbulbs for $21.60 — bulbs for which the utility paid only $3.50 each.
The utility then planned to charge consumers $0.60 more per month to make up for lost electricity sales due to the bulbs’ energy efficiency.
But as Akron’s WYTV reported,
After taking a huge public relations hit when it tried to force all its customers to buy energy-efficient light bulbs, First Energy is making a new proposal.
The electric company is now asking the Public Utilities Commission to approve a voluntary program so that those who don’t want or need the mini-florescent lights don’t have to pay for them.
The scam would have netted First Energy $7.6 million — more than the $7 million (in 1963 dollars) netted during the August 1963 Great Train Robbery.
Green is the 21st century term for “stand and deliver.”