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Li'l CoalFella Digs Deep and Finds Inspiration Between His Molars!

4/20/2012

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It's payday, friends!  Since the only payment I receive for doing this is laughter, the really good can't-catch-your-breath-tears-streaming-down-your-face kind, I not only got well paid today, I think I may have also gotten my yearly bonus!

FirstEnergy responded to AEP's lemonade ad by setting up their own special website and launching a print and radio campaign.  Yeah, yeah, I know li'l CoalFella said FirstEnergy had no plans to respond, as recently as Tuesday, however it appears that we have inspired him with our cheerful singing!  FirstEnergy also says that they have no plans for a TV commercial at this time (they're still probably trying to convince Tony the Trickster to play the mob boss).

So anyhow, go visit FirstEnergy's little website, www.forelectricsavings.com  Too bad, forreliablepower.com was already taken, but at least they're sticking with their "for" theme.  What's next?  formanyyearsofpayingforourdeadpathproject.com?  I can't wait!

Li'l CoalFella's new website has all kinds of fun stuff on it.  Hear the bitchy-sounding radio commercials, email the PUCO, or sign li'l CoalFella's petition!  Remember way back when li'l CoalFella's PEAT group had a petition on their website?  It was hard, but I resisted signing it with made-up names.  Not so for a bunch of other people, or so I hear.  So, have fun everybody!  Perhaps we should initiate a contest for the most creative made-up name that gets published on li'l CoalFella's petition?

Ironically, li'l CoalFella and his FirstEnergy co-workers now want you to "Stand up and fight!" after years of trying to get you to sit down and shut up about their PATH project.  Isn't that refreshing?  I'm glad they've finally seen the light and picked up a few pointers from us over the years.

Keep singing!  Perhaps we'll see a TV commercial soon...

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bh link
4/21/2012 01:52:21 am

"Defend your right to shop"??

Didn't know I had that right. Is that in the Constitution? Shopping is apparently the new diversion. Didn't I once hear a recent president tell everyone to keep shopping after a certain catastrophic event? And then he proceeded to totally screw up not one war, but two at the same time?

Instead of "shopping" for their electricity, which you would have to buy for the rest of your life, why not shop for ways to (1) reduce your electrical use and (2) invest in producing your own electricity so you won't have to "shop" for theirs?

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Keryn
4/21/2012 04:05:15 am

Yup... shop 'til you drop... for some of LDB's "designer coals." I'm not going to critique the effectiveness (or not) of this bitch-slapping contest (although I do think they made it unnecessarily complicated -- the lemonade commercial was much more effective, there's no clear, short message in CoalFella's counter-campaign and it lacks a clear, memorable image - aka little girl). But, hey, whaddya want for a campaign that was tossed together in a day?

I just hope the companies and PUCO remember the guidance provided in Northern Border Pipeline Company, 23 FERC ¶ 61,213, at 61,439 (1983) - “[e]xpenditures incurred to influence the opinion of the public during the selection [of applicants prior to the certification] process have little or no benefit to the ratepayers, and therefore must be borne by stockholders.”

The Byzantines would be pleased ;-) Do you see these companies kissing and making up to partner on an exhumed PATH project? Yeah, me neither...

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Fat Stinky Pinky
4/21/2012 05:49:12 am

These ads lack my greatness. Its true!

Its not about shopping. Nobody said electric customers cant shop. First Energy Fail!

AEP wants to cut into First Energys profits and make it unprofitable for them when customers do shop. Shop away Ohio people. I would say the hell with big box stores like AEP and First Energy anyway and shop locally. In my own backyard with my own power plant. Thats the real savings to be had in this shopping expedition.

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Keryn
4/24/2012 03:40:53 am

Awwww... li'l CoalFella has removed the option to see signatories on his li'l petition and make a comment. What did you all do to him??? :-)

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