Gas Lines Win-Win For All — With the Marcellus Shale gas boom occurring some have been moaning about the cost of building mains which has prompted stories in Philadelphia’s “only the government can do good” propaganda sheet, and causing saliva to start dripping from the jaws of the wolves who rule us as they see another chance to spend our money and increase their power.
For instance State Sen. Dominic Pileggi (R-9) is co-sponsoring a bill to require utilities to create plans to extend their gas-distribution
systems. A companion bill would provide $15 million our money to defray the costs of this.
How about the state just stay out of it?
In Tredyffrin Township in Chesco it has been calculated that a neighborhood at a cost of $6,400 per home could bring in a gas main causing a $3,500 annual savings per home to the heating bills.
Reader Tom C notes that a smart local bank confident of undue government interference would be more than willing to solicit loans to each household with an assignment of 75 percent of the savings. The loan would pay off in less than four years with a 8 percent interest rate. Everybody wins and the rest of us don’t have to have our money forcibly taken from us.