The AMP contract

Russ,

I know you were told Galion can sell the excess power if the city does not need it.

Lets take a look at the AMP contract. This is from Yellow Springs, Ohio. Yellow Springs is one of three in Ohio that told AMP to go jump in the Scioto river and stick your contract where the sun doesn't shine. Every contract between each community was the exact same, the only difference was the power purchase requirements and the name of the communities involved.

Go down to page 21, section C and click on that. It in you'll see where AMP is the only one that has authority to sell excess power, not Galion. Any community that does not need the excess power, AMP will make an effort to sell it, but there are no guarantees. Take into account this power will cost 40 - 50% more than they can get any where else.

http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/coal/Ohio%20Cit%20Action%20feb...

Ask the citzens of Orrville how that worked out ? The got suckered into buying into the soon to be closed Gorsuch coal plant, they never used a single watt from the place, and now have a huge bill from AMP for the EPA fines, clean up and dismantling of that plant. Citizens are furious over there.

http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/4842747

Looks like their string of good luck with companies moving in might be over soon.

Demand for electricity was dropping even before the economy went into the tank and it's shrunk even much further since then. Infact it has forced AEP in Ohio to mothball several plants that can be fired back up again should the need arise, but they don't see that happening for a while, if ever.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122722654497346099-lMyQjAxMDI...

Again Galion is reponsible for anywhere between 300 - 400 % more power than the city needs on an everday basis for the next 50 years. Kind of like you going to Granny's Kitchen everday and ordering up a table full of food, then trying to consume as much as you can, and what you can't then hoping some one will buy this and that off your table. You only have 24 hours to consume it or sell it all as more food is coming and you start the entire process all over again

Russ, you'll end up like this character from Monty Python.

WARNING THIS IS DISGUSTING, but funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczPDGC3f8U&feature=related

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Permalink Reply by Anthony on September 2, 2011 at 1:15pm

No grease required, here it comes...

http://galioninquirer.com/2011/09/city-discusses-rate-study/

Notice how this won't come out until after the elections...

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Permalink Reply by knowsher on September 5, 2011 at 7:38am

OK - so you started this "discussion" a year ago and so far have done a real good job keeping it going and dominating it by replying to your own replies to your own discussion. Can't you take a hint? There is no support for your message or method. People who ARE HERE IN GALION don't care for your pot-stirring and troublemaking. Why don't you take the hint like your buddy Lehart and just go away?

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Permalink Reply by Anthony on September 6, 2011 at 10:44am

Why don't you worry about how to file election papers properly...it's called information, something you can't understand.

While the rest of Ohio is enjoying an elecrtical price war, Galion gets left out....

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2011/09/04/aep-riv...

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Permalink Reply by knowsher on September 6, 2011 at 2:10pm

What does "elecrtical" mean?

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Permalink Reply by knowsher on September 5, 2011 at 6:31pm

P.S. - Where's your buddy Lehart been recently? He's real good at dishing it out but not so good at taking it. Takes a real big person to delete his comments and slink away rather than own up and try to defend them.