What can we do about it?

Years later, along comes Columbia Gas Monopoly.

Columbia Gas was ousted a couple of years ago after they pulled a fast one on the bill they sent to me. So by their antics the money saved after paying that entity off, demanding they remove the meter from the house, was allocated toward a generator (a solar panel).

Initially Columbia Gas, the gas monopoly, was merely being disconnected for the spring/summer months. I had done this the year prior and probably the year prior to that, disconnecting service because it was not needed during the warmer months.

However, this time the monopoly was unable to send one of their field persons to come and disconnect the service promptly. They rather, choosing to wait for a solitary DAY into the next billing cycle, manipulated an additional amount of money due to the disconnect running into another billing cycle (extorted, manipulated, coerced, profiteered, racketeered, and the ilk, pick your word). So now that the gas monopoly is gone and it's been that way for more than a couple of years now.

I also have one less entity telling me I owe them something each and every month.

And finally, a more recent event was that of the polity here in Springfield Ohio, namely the German Township's manipulation of tricking the local citizenry to the new electricity plan.

Here's how it went down:

We people received a notice in the mail that stated that IF WE DID NOT RESPOND in the time alloted, that the local government was automatically going to make a decision for us by opting us into this new deal.

Upon first glance many were tricked by the very words that were so well chosen in the notice, that if we are opted into the new plan that we will be guaranteed the lowest price for electricity.

Well, even you the reader are thinking, "Gee, that sounds terrific!!"

Hold on to your illusions of security in putting other men in charge of your adult decision-making because here's the trick:

Yes, you certainly are going to get the lowest price for electricity FROM THAT PARTICULAR COMPANY.

When I looked into this awesome new deal it was found that my electricity was significantly cheaper than the "lowest price".

As an example of this nefarious capitalizing game, suppose you call me to have your PC repaired and I only have three prices for work (depending on the degree of damage, etc.). The lowest price is $35.00. That is my lowest price offered to you. However it is not the lowest price in the world and furthermore there's a kid down the street that will work for aspirin which is leaps and bounds cheaper than the "lowest rate" I quoted to you, right?

Recently a gentleman showed up and offered many dumptruck loads of dirt so that I can finish my lawn and convert it from a fishbowl (swimming pool when it rained) into a lawn that is above the surrounding grade. In any event, he brought up this issue of the autocratic decision-making with this township's great lowest price for electricity deal.

His story went like this: He and his wife had received the notice sent by the township but they were on vacation when the notice arrived and nobody ever dreamed of receiving a letter that would consider your decision to opt in (if you did not respond in time). We know Courts do this tactic also but when it comes to public utilities being controlled by the very entities that are the recipients of the proceeds and profits of the new deal....ooops, sorry I got off track about what the man told me.

So anyway It did not sound as though the guy was able to undo the automagic of being opted into a plan change so he went to the town meeting and expressed his displeasure. Basically the story developed into something else the township "trustees" conjured up which affected his friend whom was also at the meeting. The new law is that the township can demolition your property at your expense if your property appears to be unkempt and if you do not respond to the notice to address the issue in time.

Imagine being in the hospital at the wrong time, only to come home to no home.

Here is the legal definition of Racketeering:

"Making money from a dishonest activity."

Here is the definition of PROFITEERING:

"A person or entity that takes advantage of a situation to gain higher profits."

If you don't agree with something, start by being willing to change your own surroundings. My Bible states that we are to "be ye separate" and to "let thine own cisterns water thee".

enough said.

For anybody that might find my story incredible, check this out:

November 20, 2019 I just went to check the link and see the link no longer works! Instead of seeing the testimony of a slew of homeowner's all claiming similar issues now shows only the arrogance and power of monopoly: The link now simply shows the curriculum vitae of the leading agents of FGUA. The title was "FGUA FRAUD CHARGES". I also notice that of the top 5 results that I looked at in a google search yielded nothing of the matter (whereas the topic was foremost of the issues of exploitation). Situation Contained. Out of sight; Out of mind.

The aforementioned was listed on Blogger and today there is nothing. I'd like to say Censorship is what turned me off about using Blogger for my own website....oh wait!!! I absolutely did drop Blogger because they censored well-over 50% of all my comments!! I just didn't know about this one being censored away too. I feel sorry for the commenters that bothered to piddle away their moments of life to even leave a comment. Censorship. It works. For the Few.

Luckily there are sites like https://web.archive.org/web/20130704015848/https://fguafraud.blogspot.com/ that maintain some semblance of true authentic history.

2013 archive: I tried to make it work in Epiphany and Firefox and only get a spinning gear and no data-retrieval.

2014 archive: Same results.

2015 archive: Nothing, just a spinning wheel

2016 archive: This is when the establishment put in the place of all the comments and claims their curriculum vitae as a place holder seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160210070525/https://fguafraud.blogspot.com/

Imagine the power to change history.