The rate hike that has been approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will affect small businesses and tax payers who in times of hardship will suffer another rate hike for an inefficient energy giant. They have already had a rate hike to which they were supposed to use the cash to bury the power lines and modernize, but the last power outage caused by severe thunderstorms obviously showed how ill prepared they were for an incident of this nature.
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