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Residents Stung by High Cost Of Power
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 15, 2008 12:08pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, March 16, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bills Have Risen 14 to 78 Percent
By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 16, 2008; Page A01
George Mann, an $18-an-hour grocery store clerk in Waldorf, found himself trembling last month as he wrote the check to pay his $644 electricity bill.
Still financially recovering from a $549 electricity bill in January, Mann said he noticed he was "shaking" as he paid the bill, full of anxiety about how he would find the money to pay other household expenses for the three-bedroom rambler where he lives with his wife and four children.
"When they deregulated the market, there was supposed to be competition and prices were supposed to go down," he said. "But why did the bills go in the opposite direction?"
That is a question being echoed in households across the region, particularly as heating bills rise in the coldest months of the year.
Electricity costs 78 percent more for Marylanders who get their power from Pepco than it did in 2001, and Virginians pay 14 percent more than they did at that time. Rates in the District have climbed 55 percent over the past six years.
According to Pepco, the average monthly bill in the District was $60.28 in 2004 and $87.45 in 2007. The average bill in Maryland was $90.45 in 2004 and $138.29 in 2007. In Virginia, bills have climbed from $98.85 to $103.90 in the same time period, according to Dominion. |
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