Yes sir this is a great place to operate a business.
The State with all it’s power, led by the all powerful Governor is preparing to dictate to private gas businesses the terms of their sales. Not only that they are mandating that the privates companies continue to do business with people who are not paying them.
People need help paying their utility bills that are inflated by the high price of natural gas, says Gov. Bobby Jindal, so he supports Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell’s push to declare an “energy emergency.”
At Campbell’s urging, the Public Service Commission will meet at 10:30 a.m. today to consider the request, which could result in delaying some of the payment of high utility bills caused by elevated fuel adjustment charges. A never-before-used state law gives the PSC authority to declare an emergency that allows people who have trouble paying their utility bill to defer payment on a portion of it.
“I absolutely do support the PSC declaring an emergency,” Jindal said in an interview after meeting Monday with Campbell to discuss his proposal. “The idea of giving customers more time to pay their bills is a good first step.”
Jindal said he also agrees with Campbell’s idea of putting more money into a weatherization program so people can improve their homes’ energy efficiency and purse additional federal funds to help people pay their bills.
“We need to do more to help families” who are having problems caused by high utility bills, the governor said. “We may have identified as much as $10 million in DNR (the Department of Natural Resources) for the Home Energy Loan Program” to improve energy efficiency.
Jindal is as big a liberal as any one to hold the office the last 30 years.
Next thing you know he will be trying price controls on gasoline.
