{"id":1410,"date":"2006-08-14T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/queens_con_ed_customers_receive_higher_bills_during_july.html"},"modified":"2006-08-14T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:50:54","slug":"queens_con_ed_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/queens_con_ed_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Queens Con Ed Customers Receive Higher Bills During July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/post_blackout_urge_in_con_ed_bills_spark_outrage_regionalnews_angela_montefinise.htm\">buzzkill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many northwest Queens Con Ed customers are fuming over their July bills, which are higher and show more energy usage than the month before &#8212; despite a 10-day blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of irate residents have complained to City Councilmen Eric Gioia and Peter Vallone Jr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely impossible,&#8221; said Sunnyside&#8217;s Samuel Wolfson, 66, whose bill went from $114.03 in June to $116.71 in July. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way I used more electricity during the blackout month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His bill says he used 465 kilowatts of electricity in June and 499 last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had no electricity for seven to 10 days, then four or five days with partial electricity, but somehow I used more?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>An angry Councilman Gioia said, &#8220;Con Ed . . . should be issuing apologies and reimbursements &#8212; not inflated bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Con Ed spokeswoman Joy Faber said the bills likely &#8220;reflect the fact that [customers] used more power.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now that&#8217;s a buzzkill: Many northwest Queens Con Ed customers are fuming over their July bills, which are higher and show more energy usage than the month before &#8212; despite a 10-day blackout. Dozens of irate residents have complained to City Councilmen Eric Gioia and Peter Vallone Jr. &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely impossible,&#8221; said Sunnyside&#8217;s Samuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}