The one-time credit is the result of a settlement agreement reached at the end of the last General Assembly session, during which BGE, its parent company Constellation Energy, Gov. Martin O'Malley, the state of Maryland and the Public Service Commission brokered a deal to resolve years of litigation.
The deal ends a string of lawsuits between the state and Constellation from a 2006 dispute, dismisses $1.5 billion worth of decommissioning costs and ends investigations into the 1999 deregulation agreement that has been...
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Yes, A Joke - 2008-08-21 21:10:05
My latest bill was $174, so I basically have paid for my rebate. Thanks BGE.
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A Joke - 2008-08-21 01:44:06
This rebate is a joke. Ted, CN, & Peter, I agree with you. Im not going to pretend to know the solution, but the cost of living in Maryland is outrageous. Another family here considering moving out of state. Everyone has their hands out nickel and diming us to death and still asking for more more more.
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Front??? - 2008-08-20 09:39:42
Mr. Kay I have been reading your comments for a year and you have never written anything that did not come straight from the DNC/Daily Kos cabal. Have you ever looked at an issue and analysed it yourself without simply running down the party line? Take your $170 and send it to Barry Obama, he'll know who to give it to.
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well - 2008-08-18 13:04:18
Now Peter, you and I both know that the oil companies will willingly eat that tax and never pass it on the the consumer. ;) Increasing costs is a brilliant way to bring prices down!
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GN Cummings - 2008-08-18 11:07:18
You are one of many. 120,000 people have left Montgomery county since O'Malley, Miller, and Busch's brilliant tax scheme. The Democratic party is nothing more than institutionalized economic ignorance. They are against drilling in the Gulf because they say the millions of barrels of oil won't bring down the price of gasoline, yet tapping into a few barrels in the strategic reserve will. Oil is , like you said, an international market. No one in America, not even the hated Republican party, can control the price of oil. Oh and get this one. They want to bring down the cost of oil by tacking on another cost in production with a windfall profit tax. Ridiculous!
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With respect to oil - 2008-08-17 17:47:10
Please tell me that you have a little more thought behind the cost of oil then to blame Republicans and not the free market system & speculators that drives up oil futures. Please tell me that the world wide price of oil is because of the republicans in the United States. Your thought process of how things come to be is the exact reason why people believe that you and your Democratic buddies--O'Malley, Busch & Miller--are ruining the state of MD. Seriously...when you have people like O'Malley single handedly ruin a better deal to the BGE crisis with a faulty lawsuit and have Busch single handedly not allow slots to come to a vote--when it clearly would have passed in a rare bipartisan effort--THAT, my sir, is laughable. And it really takes simple thought to realize, again, what have the Democrats done for you lately??? Blame, blame, blame with no real solutions.
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GN from Cumming - 2008-08-17 17:36:24
Spent the last 32 years of my life in Annapolis. Moved away because the one party state is ruining the state and making it a laughing stock.
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GN Cummings - 2008-08-16 10:38:43
It good to get an outside view of how people view the State govt of Maryland, generally very poorly. It's almost laughable the extent of the monopoly/corruption. Strike this one up to just another Owe'Malley failed campaign promise. I am still in search of one he has kept. Maybe the no higher taxes one....
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GN cummings GA comments - 2008-08-16 05:09:41
Why is someone from GA commenting on our electric rates here in MD, unless he is simply a front for the republican party? It would be interesting to know.........
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Electric rates - 2008-08-16 05:06:51
What most of the respondents so far miss is that the deregulation was a trick pulled over the eyes of the government by big business lies about lower cost. Of course the people in the business that deregulation would ultimately result in costs going up, so they faked a situation to get out of regulation, and we now see the result in sky high bills. Instead of businesses competing for a fair profit, or being regulated, what they want to do is charge as much as the traffic will bear. Exactly the same as with gas prices, nearly tripled under the Bush and oil companies Republican administration. Also, the former CEO of BGE got a $40 million retirement bonus, for engineering a restructuring of the electric business at the expense of all the ordinary people. And you can bet your last $ that the CEO, the oil companies, etc all have the republican party in their pocket. The only chance of saving the middle class in this nation is to drive all the republicans out of power, so they cannot worship at their God of Greed, while ripping off the little guy. And please don't think McCain is any different. He OWNS EIGHT HOUSES, not something he pays for with his senator's salary and any possible military retirement pay. He is just a front for Wall Street, and it is your pocket his pals will continue to pick, big time.
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What? - 2008-08-15 22:42:43
How in the world could it be the Republicans' fault? Democrats created this whole mess years ago when they held all of the power. Then they messed up the better deal that Ehrlich brokered--O'Malley personally screwed that one up by taking it to court only to have it not stand up. Democrats have held all of the power--even with Ehrlich in office thanks to Busch and Miller wildly throwing their weight around--for, what are going on 43 years now?? THAT is how bad and how one sided MD is. I'm not asking for much, just more balance then what this whole BGE thing has brought to light about how badly the Dems can treat people and somehow they turn a blind eye and vote them right back into office. What have the Democrats done for you lately?
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Doesn't Matter - 2008-08-15 20:28:20
I live in a one bedroom apartment--my July bill was over $200. August's was $174. I've got the thermostat cranked to 78 degrees, I change the air filter, turn off lights, got the CFLs, shut the shades, run the washer/dryer/dishwasher after 7pm...it doesn't matter which party is in office...electric and gas bills are ridiculous and both sides let them get that way. I'm glad I don't own a house because of the rates we pay in electric and gas...
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laughable - 2008-08-15 17:38:04
It's like placing a band-aid on someone who just had their arm amputated...I've said it a million times, it's time for MD voters to wise up and vote out the Democrats that are ruining the state and making fools out of all of their constituents.
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