Your Oncor Bill Will Be Going Up

• Oncor did not say that... it was the writer of the article

• people aren't wasting electricity like they used to? great...we cut back consumption all for the sake of our bills and for the environment *cough*...hmmm...no good deed goes unpunished?

• So they get more money and as part of the "settlement" they agree to do less.

• I have a real problem with the reactive instead of proactive tree trimming. But, I can understand it. Whenever Oncor has tried to trim people's trees away from powerlines, they have had people threatening to assault anyone who touches there trees. You can't have reliable power and not trim the trees away from the lines. And, I would rather have Oncor doing it than face the possibility of having my power knocked out by some hamfisted idiot with a chainsaw (who is not bonded and insured) hired by my neighbor (happened to a friend, and it caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to her home).

• "We're so incompetent that we can't even keep the lights on in neighborhoods with buried power lines when the wind blows a little bit, so we need more money."

• If Oncor is so tight on cash, how were they able to cough up $1 million "donation" to support one of Leppert's political initiatives prior to his resignation? Was the $1 million some sort of understood quid pro quo, under which Leppert would help get this increase through the Oncor Cities Steering Committee?

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