while that sounds good in press releases allow me to assure you that in the spirit of animal farm, some pigs are more equal than others. they are a not for profit, not a non profit, and a board that commands HUGE salaries profits from the other so called owners, which is what they in name only refer to their customers as. it is a sham, plain and simple.

how weird you happened to sign up today and only comment on this post... i guess Owens has nothing to do with you?

I live in Canada. I have nothing to do with Owen Electric. And although I don't post all that much, I have been on this site more than a day.

I don't know what the co-op charter looks like for Owen. Perhaps it is skewed against the customer-owners. But, since it is a co-op, there are usually opportunities for the membership to change everything about it, including the charter, the board, the management, the policies, etc.

Co-ops vs. corporate owned utilities have a better chance of having the customers change things from the bottom up. Co-ops usually have a 1 member, 1 vote system.

and i live in bubblefuck, stop the bullshit. You just happen to sign up the same day we post this and only find this topic to post... ok sunshine, keep thinking we are gullible like you.

I don't know what to tell you. I just checked out the post because I'm a fan of co-ops. I'm pretty sure I signed up the day that Olbermann said he was coming to Current. That was quite a few weeks ago.

I've just be popping back in every now and then to see if he's done anything interesting here yet. In case you haven't noticed, the world's gotten even more interesting since he's been away from Countdown.

lol very punny!

i dont know how we allowed it to happen, but i know that we cannot allow it to continue. so far i have contacted the kentucky energy board, the USDA and the FTC as well as the kentucky observer. i am paying for the power to be turned on for the disabled woman, because she refused to come live here until it is resolved. and tomorrow i am going to owen electric to try and speak with a board member to let them know about the wave of bad publicity i am hoping to drive their way until the resolve and cease this practice.

Batman_durr 2012

lol sadly a felony arrest record prevents public office

I had a feeling somebody good was bursting to get out of you great way to be a good person( Hat tip) your good deed will not go unnoticed friend ...thanks for that! Your a hero among men....

Good for you - don't forget to file a "ripoffreport'. Companies read that and many respond to the bad publicity.

the families who are in this mess and freezing tonight could care less what 'party' the villians belong to, only that they are cold and being abused. lets put aside rhetoric and try to do what we can for these specific people, not concepts in general.

none the less, i mostly agree with you

I was merely pointing out who Mostly is actively working to make things worse with policies that would allow big companies to do those things due to eliminating regulations.
We all know that companies, when left alone to do business the way they feel necessary, would never intentionally hurt anyone or abuse their power, Right?
As with you my friend, I also feel that those on the Democratic side who are undermining the public interests by being unduly influenced by their big money contributors should also be targeted, but I do put blame where it belongs, Mostly on the Republicans.
The answer is Not to abandon the Democratic party due to a bad representative in some places but to change who represents that party from that area. We need some New Democratic politicians that will Listen to the Democratic core of Progressives and to make their decisions based on what is best for the Common People.
Yes I believe that we need a new party that can compete with the D’s and R’s but until then I will push to change things from within.

i agree wholeheartedly but hope for more 'what can we do in this specific case' before we get to the 'lets rail against the system in general'

Point taken.

fired is mild to what i wish for them lol

Let's replace the whole company .

That's perfect :-)!! Let's hook them up to their own power poles and give them a 'healthy' jolt!

yeah they are and so is complaining about them which is why i decided to take it up a notch and hope to get others as well to take this specific company down a notch or two or at least help some people out who are being abused

its insane, the smugness in which they brazenlky told me hey if anyone doesnt like our policies we can shut them off since we dont have any competition in this area tough luck. and i quote.

i have also contacted the FTC as the company is affecting peoples credit and the local and state newspapers to get some light on this, but i really hope there are people out there calling them and decrying this practice to the company itself, thus the phione numbers i included and email addresses lol

it is a teaching platform make the death of a baby a joke and nobody Cares
Make rape of a child consensual and blame the child. Any child abort the fetus the child is a murderer Let the state refuse to feed the joke baby and it dies nobody cares
If the baby dies in an over heated car left alone at church meeting it was an accident. But let a dog is left alone in a car people are calling 911

yeah i am trying to get some of the parties together for a legal action, especially the woman in disability who is sitting in the cold right now because they added her sons bill onto hers and then disconnected her, but they are a little scared of losing what little they have to the big bad electric company

..."and then a hero comes along..."...you're the best...

if all i can do is talk, then i am not any good at all. i am trying to get these people some heat and justice. but thank you!

as would i, as long as they weren't tinpot dictators doing it for greed

Yes , indeed !

look it up there use to be fifty farmers that has become one We broke up the largest monopoly called AT&T to make baby bells then they turn into conglomerates like World com Lucent and Enron they took the money and ran . Now we have AT&T the conglomerate and nobody knows who owns whom at the stock market and where the money is? we only have three food processing plants and the rest are Rent-a- co-op /cooperation -sharecropper

indeed and i am hoping between us all we can start turning the tide!

LMAO!!! at your comments.

whats funny is i spoke to the USDA on this, as they in part contribute funding to Owens, and mentioned that i felt when i spoke to Owens reps, they thought i was being belligerent due to my accent, which is a brooklyn one lol, and they thought i was arguing when i wasnt. the USDA rep said, and i quote, 'i would be doing more than arguing if it was my family or people' to which i said 'like what? firebombs?' and she laughed lol

owens is doing just that. i contacted the governor of KY who ran in part on a solar and alternate energy platform, and offered for free a parcel of my land for solar and wind collection. he refused and said it was too expensive to build them, even for free, but speak with Owen electric as they are looking into doing it!! then i applied for a permit variance on the land to build wind towers, and the permit was denied due to Owen protesting the allowance!!

it is insane what they are doing to these families, and the fraud with federal funds they are committing. to think this is one small electric cooperative in a corner of kentucky taking advantage of the poor and less educated among us, and multiply it nationally to every crook with a finger in a pie, is staggering. i am hoping as many people as possible here and at opensourceworld.us and across the globe rise up and tell this specific company that this will not stand. if we start here, we can build and spread more stories of malfeasance and abuse and right some wrongs.

the clock is ticking .. and they know it! They'll be rounding us dissidents up soon enough I think hopefully we can stay outta there nets if we stay active and if we look out for each other . things are going to get ugly! we are easy targets it would be ignorant to think otherwise, they are already trying there tricks in their bag of many things. I hope we can stay united and safe and our nation will rise . We are united friend .

Hang in there buddy, there are more of us than them!