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A PENNY SHORT.....
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A penny short means no electricity for a Michigan woman
Flint, Michigan - Just how powerful is a penny?
To a Michigan energy company it's the difference between keeping your lights on and having them turned off.
Consumers Energy turned off the power to a Flint woman after she paid all but one penny of her bill, which was $1,662.08.
The company told her the power would not be turned on until it received the penny.
The woman went went into the Consumers' Energy office and paid the penny. After seven hours without electricity, her power was restored.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Flint, Michigan - Just how powerful is a penny?
To a Michigan energy company it's the difference between keeping your lights on and having them turned off.
Consumers Energy turned off the power to a Flint woman after she paid all but one penny of her bill, which was $1,662.08.
The company told her the power would not be turned on until it received the penny.
The woman went went into the Consumers' Energy office and paid the penny. After seven hours without electricity, her power was restored.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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How did she get a bill that large without paying it? I just heard on the news yesterday that it cost the government 1.6 Cents to make a penny and 5.8 cents to make a nickel.
Don't believe it. It cost less than a nickle to make a quarter.
Unless she's running several MIG welders, perhaps she has a body shop, methinks she just didn't pay the bill for a long time.
I meant refrigerators, ya pot heads! [:D]
Tack it onto the next bill for cripes sake....Sometimes the stupidity of companies astounds me...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-05-16-penny_x.htm
Black, You need to link the whole story, not just parts of it. On one hand,
quote:FLINT, Mich. (AP) - It was just a penny, but to Consumers Energy it was enough to cut off power in a Flint, Mich.,home.
Jacqueline Williams, 41, of Flint had an electricity bill of $1,662.08 and paid all of it, except for one cent. That wasn't enough for the power company, which blacked her out for seven hours Wednesday.
The CMS Energy (CMS) subsidiary told Williams the power would not be turned on until the penny was received.
But look a little further:
quote:"All of this for one penny," said Williams, who went to the state Department of Human Services for help in April and was told the agency would pay some of the bill.
But she was still short more than $500.
Williams, a Social Security recipient, went to the Salvation Army, where she received $430.67, and Consumers agreed to match $430.66 toward the bill.
However, she was still one cent short.
Over half of her bill was paid by the Salvation Army and Consumers Energy itself. It doesn't say how much the Dept of Human Services (aka you and me) paid. I think that if it were me, I would have paid the penny on time.
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Posted - 05/16/2006 : 9:27:08 PM
The point is not why the bill was so large, the point is for a flippin penny they cut it off.....
It seems you're choosing to ignore the facts. With the amount of money she owed the power company I would have electricity for roughly 14-18 months. I am inclined to believe she may have missed a payment here or there. AND MAYBE in the power companies crazy skeem to turn a profit it is reasonable to expect payment in full to someone who repeatedly stiffs you, before you continue to provide a service to that person.