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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 5:47 PM

Let's hear it for choice!

The natural gas billed arrived the other day. Included with the usual brochure thingy telling you not to excavate trees in a thunderstorm was an "environmental update" for Energy Services Companies (ESCOs) aka suppliers. (I truly do not understand why the categories for everything have to be so complicated these days.) I don't give money to Greenpeace or anything, but I am interested enough in the environment to at least try educate myself enough to choose lesser evils. Anyway, this sheet lists two charts a piece for seven companies. The first lists percentages of fuel sources to generate electricity (biomass, coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, solid waste and wind), and the other lists the air emissions for each company, relative to the state average. Aside from the one company that mostly uses nuclear power, the percentages for fuel sources are exactly the same for all the other companies. Hence, their emissions are all the same, although one does manage to come in 1% under the others for sulfur dioxide. I am not completely sold on nuclear power. The air emissions are far lower than the others. Actually, the emissions are a lot lower than the state average. I just don't trust that the waste will always be taken care of properly. One is then left with two choices among seven companies. So, how does one choose among the conventional companies? One is called ECONnergy, whose byline is "Break Free." Highly entertaining. Or ironic at the very least. In the end, it's just about picking a name. You could go with the name that is most aesthetically pleasing. My advice: pick the one with the shortest name so as to spend less time writing checks each month.

By adriennelibrarian at 5:47 PM

Blogger Shaw Israel Izikson said...

In Vermont, there's actually an electric service that provides power by cow manure.

Don't even get me started about Nuclear power...we're all way too near Vermont Yankee down here.  

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Blogger Shaw Israel Izikson said...

Cat (or veggie burger) get yer tounge?  

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Blogger Shaw Israel Izikson said...

'dis is dah song that nev-ah endz...  

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