Columbia Gas is trying to stick their failure to manage onto
rate payers asking for a 23 percent increase to be used for
maintenance which should've been budgeted over many years by
reinvesting. I'm guessing the real reason is over-investment in
fracking, oversupply and demand destruction due to the economy.
America's sense of fairness has been stolen through what the
government terms "deregulation." There's no such thing as
"deregulation," just regulation in favor of other parties. By
snipping a bit here and there, our regulations to stop corporate
abuses, created mostly by years of courtroom decisions, have
been eliminated. Both parties have brought us back to the same
battles we fought since the days of Morgan, Rockefeller,
Vanderbilt and Carnegie.  Democracy suggests fairness, fairness
requires laws that protect the workers from employers, consumers
from suppliers, the environment from those that exploit it and
our political system from corruption.  Similar to Europe,
austerity is coming to America. The