As many know from first hand experience the days since last weekend have been very cold and dark for many people in Oklahoma in the wake of a disasterous ice storm.
Over a half-million customers of various electric companies and co-ops lost power owing to what is being called the biggest power outage in Oklahoma history. [...]
Another flim-flam has hit consumers of electric service from AEP-PSO.
Yesterday the utility raised rates by $8.6 million, supposedly to offset increased costs for meter reading and billing according to the Tulsa World.
Also according to the Tulsa World:
Under state law, AEP-PSO can institute some or all of the requested $47.9 million increase sought in the [...]
Many of the residents of the town of Krebs, Oklahoma are without natural gas and have been without gas since early on the morning of April 18th.
The reason for the outage is that their natural gas service is through a small privately owned utility named Public Gas Company of Oklahoma whose supplier has shut off [...]
As much of eastern Oklahoma struggles to break the grip of a crippling ice storm, many thousands are without electricity and the many things we all take for granted and which are dependent upon electricity to function.
Several eastern Oklahoma towns are currently without water owing to the lack of electricity to operate pumps, treatment plants [...]
