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Most Annoying Utilities?

What would you say is YOUR worst utility companies?

  • Cell Phone

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • Cable / Dish company

    Votes: 18 54.5%
  • Water

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • Electric

    Votes: 9 27.3%
  • Garbage

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Natural Gas

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Unnatural Gas

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dont Know / Other

    Votes: 4 12.1%

  • Total voters
    33
In the winter time here, we have wind chills down to -20 degrees Fahrenheit, with normal temps well below zero.

Welcome to Kansas. Where one day it's 60, and the next its 28.

If you don't like the weather here in Florida...wait 30 minutes or hop your neighbors fence.
 
I have yet to meet anyone who said they liked internet from their landline carrier.
 
I am from California, we have palm trees and sunny days a lot of the year. -10 is fricken cold. Freeze the nards off cold. -10 is the frozen tundra cold. Hell the frozen foods section of the grocer is warmer than that. Its actualy warmer in my freezer. I need my parka now.:ninja:

Dang Americans complaining about cold. I wonder how you would fair in the NWT.
 
Water Works. I tend to land on that more than I do Electric Company. It's not so bad, unless someone owns both. Then you have to pay 10 times the dice roll. Sheesh.
 
Im deadling with a utility company that is lying about past occurances and its attempting to ad insult to injury and I have no other option but to bend over an comply because there is NO other company I can go to. What would you say is YOUR worst utility companies?

I feel ya. Here there's only one company to handle both water and gas, and every month they rape my wallet up the ass with no lube.
 
Water Works. I tend to land on that more than I do Electric Company. It's not so bad, unless someone owns both. Then you have to pay 10 times the dice roll. Sheesh.

Lol. I get water from a well :)
 
Lol. I get water from a well :)

All the municipal water here is from a well even though there is a giant water pipeline underneath us that would reduce the price but the town is run by idiots.
 
Water Works. I tend to land on that more than I do Electric Company. It's not so bad, unless someone owns both. Then you have to pay 10 times the dice roll. Sheesh.

We had an issue here where the private owned water company had the sheriffs dept handing out first warnings than 200.00 fines for using to much water...then they issue an out of county company the right to draw a million gallons of water a month for water bottling company...were the residents PISSED lol...your going to fine us for using too much water and your giving a million gallons a month away....
 
Im deadling with a utility company that is lying about past occurances and its attempting to ad insult to injury and I have no other option but to bend over an comply because there is NO other company I can go to. What would you say is YOUR worst utility companies?

Not sure if you know this but you can choose a different supplier for your electricity. That is if you are not in a Municipal Co-op. It won't change who delivers your power and you will still have your gas coming from the utility. But at least you can get the Electric cheaper.

Not sure if this is the problem you have but it's an option.
 
We had an issue here where the private owned water company had the sheriffs dept handing out first warnings than 200.00 fines for using to much water...then they issue an out of county company the right to draw a million gallons of water a month for water bottling company...were the residents PISSED lol...your going to fine us for using too much water and your giving a million gallons a month away....
I would be pissed, too.
 
Not sure if you know this but you can choose a different supplier for your electricity. That is if you are not in a Municipal Co-op. It won't change who delivers your power and you will still have your gas coming from the utility. But at least you can get the Electric cheaper.

Not sure if this is the problem you have but it's an option.
This is not available in all place. Only some.
 
I would be pissed, too.

They were and are...I never got any warnings or fines...I just run my sprinklers as the law allows...and it changes depending on the water table...there are some people that are ridiculously above the caps...but still you dont fine residents and give a company millions of gallons of water per year...if your going to tell the residents theres not enough water and it has to be conserved.
 
This is not available in all place. Only some.

If you are serviced by Com Ed or Ameren then in the state of Illinois you have the choice to select a different supplier other than your local Utility. Illinois is one of the few states that are deregulated for Energy. Noodle's Avatar shows Northern Illinois.

This is what I do for a living so if any one has any questions just let me know.
 
and how often do you run it dry?

Wells run dry in certain areas and others never...you may have to put in a new pump every 10-15 yrs average...like in mountainous W virginia where theres alot of shale if your well goes dry and they do...your screwed, it costs a bundle to drill a new well there...in florida if your well goes dry its not nearly as costly, you may have to drill 600 ft in W Virgina of rock and shale...and 60 ft of sand in florida...
 
All the municipal water here is from a well even though there is a giant water pipeline underneath us that would reduce the price but the town is run by idiots.

1 word: Government.
 
All the municipal water here is from a well even though there is a giant water pipeline underneath us that would reduce the price but the town is run by idiots.
Water rights are often tricky and convoluted. Just because there's a water pipe nearby doesn't mean that the city has the option to purchase any of the water, nor does it mean that the owner of the water wants to sell.
 
Im deadling with a utility company that is lying about past occurances and its attempting to ad insult to injury and I have no other option but to bend over an comply because there is NO other company I can go to. What would you say is YOUR worst utility companies?

By far the phone, cable and internet. They try and force you into bundling by adding extra packages of features you neither want nor can afford. And the competition, which there is few play games with cheap sign up fees and have hidden or later charges added.
 
Water rights are often tricky and convoluted. Just because there's a water pipe nearby doesn't mean that the city has the option to purchase any of the water, nor does it mean that the owner of the water wants to sell.

It was specifically built for us but after they built it they decided they wanted to use well water.
 
Wells run dry in certain areas and others never...you may have to put in a new pump every 10-15 yrs average...like in mountainous W virginia where theres alot of shale if your well goes dry and they do...your screwed, it costs a bundle to drill a new well there...in florida if your well goes dry its not nearly as costly, you may have to drill 600 ft in W Virgina of rock and shale...and 60 ft of sand in florida...

I know. I was more referencing the common phrase which really means they have drained their well too low and have to wait for it to fill back up before they can use water again. That happens a lot in my area if you have lots of clothes to wash, kids to bathe, etc. Grit is the bigger contaminate problem in my area. I am on city water that is pumped out of a river that hasn't ran dry yet (but we do get boiled water warnings once in a blue moon due to torrential rains putting too much gunk running off into the river). I won't have that luxury when I build my new house.
 
I know. I was more referencing the common phrase which really means they have drained their well too low and have to wait for it to fill back up before they can use water again. That happens a lot in my area if you have lots of clothes to wash, kids to bathe, etc. Grit is the bigger contaminate problem in my area. I am on city water that is pumped out of a river that hasn't ran dry yet (but we do get boiled water warnings once in a blue moon due to torrential rains putting too much gunk running off into the river). I won't have that luxury when I build my new house.

You can get residue and grit in any well anywhere...here in florida sand is a bad guy...city water isnt eutopia feces makes its way into city water at times and they put out boil water warnings and other nicey nice things you dont want to drink.
Water is getting to be a big problem in alot of places...the one single thing none of us can last long without...we had better start paying attention.
 
When our neighborhood was, hum, started it was fishing cabins miles from town and city. The city has caught us, i.e. we are a bedroom community near an international airport. With the new bridge (replaced an older one) there is now a new natural gas line down crossing the beginning of our dead end street. There are 12 homes on the first 1200 feet that run from 500 gallon propane tanks. A line was not run down our street. They want to charge us thousands to install the line down the street and in addition what it would cost for the run the stub to the house. I think the township allowed this. Our taxes are not low. Hum.

I guess I have to say I voted Natural Gas, but the township didn't require them to run a line. I haven't taken the time to figure the root cause for not getting the line run down our street, just across our street.
 
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