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Posts posted by PvilleStang
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15 hours ago, markstanco said:
WTF/HOLYSHIT And yes, confirmed Arkansas.
Your average Razorback fan pre-game ritual?
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Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam. They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well:
Quotehttps://austinenergy.com/rates/residential-rates/other-line-items-on-your-bill
Other Line Items on Your Bill
Charges and Fees
Community Benefit Charges
The Community Benefit Charges include:
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Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.
Learn more about the Customer Assistance Program
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Service Area Lighting — The Service Area Lighting component recovers the costs of street lighting (except for those maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation) and the operation of traffic signals in the City of Austin. Customers who live outside the City do not pay these charges.
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Energy Efficiency Programs — The Energy Efficiency Programs piece recovers the cost of energy efficiency programs. This includes rebates offered to residential customers to make improvements to their homes to reduce their electric bills.
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Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.
Learn more about Austin Energy Rebates and Incentives
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Solar — This component includes recovery of the cost for solar rebates to encourage the installation of rooftop solar systems. These systems help decrease long-term costs for Austin Energy and the ERCOT system.
Learn more about rebates for installing a solar system in your home
- Green Building — This component recovers the costs for Austin Energy Green Building, which promotes and implements policies and guidelines to increase energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and businesses.
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Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.
If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!
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Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.
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How dare that guy park with new tires! The horror!!!
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2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:
I remember when there were no such things as ATMs.
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Man, that's some damn good service right there. The big names around Austin would just upsell you to the next tier if they had a part missing, to the tune of a couple grand more. Used to use Precision religiously, but when Fox Service bought them out, it went WAY down hill.
They came out a few months ago to troubleshoot the indoor unit not working. Sent a greenish tech, and they triaged the unit for a good 2 hours, replaced the transformer then put a fan motor on order. Given this was a Friday afternoon around 4, they couldn't get the motor in hand until at least the next day. I called the office the next day, and swapping the fan motor is considered a new install, so they had to assign a different tech to return and install the unit, and installers only work M-F 8-5 hours, so had to sit the entire weekend. Fast forward to Monday, they tried to duck out for another no AC call, but the tech had already talked to me, and I told him the situation, and he came early and swapped the motor for me.Now 2 months later, they come out for an annual maintenance on the system, and they stated we really need to clean the fan (the one they pulled 2 months prior to swap the motor) and it was $800 to clean it since they'd have to pull it again. Could have easily taken a brush to it for 2 minutes while it was out of the system and knocked off all the dust and debris before mounting the new motor, but that would have made too much sense, right?
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Ring on left finger missing, divorce party?
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10 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:
That's very fancy. I was told right here on this board all you needed was some peanut butter and a Lab.
Watch out, blacklab has had people banned for less
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25 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
I fucking HATE what the homeless fucksticks have done to this city. Got damned so fucking sick of them.
They are ASSWATER!!
When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.
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1 hour ago, luke duke said:
Those are great, but cost 4x what a properly sized cap does.
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Or keep a spare $20 capacitor for when you need it. I say this, but I don’t have one. I should take my own advice.
I need to, but I have several AC units I maintain, and would need to keep different sizes stocked...
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Window Salesmen: Renewal by Andersen quotes a quarter of the value of your house for window replacement (I think we got quoted 3700 / window) and their sales tactics are more aggressive than a used car salesman. What they do is not terribly difficult, but most of the big box stores won't sell drop-in replacement windows for standard sizes, so even Lowes / Home Depot get you by the short and curlies trying to force custom orders and install fees.
HVAC techs. Granted, when you're paying $400 for a capacitor replacement, you're paying $20 for the part, $100 for the diag and labor, and $280 for not having to drive to the HVAC supplier and waste half a day to get said part and do it yourself. My number 1 complaint about HVAC is the suppliers seem to be open from 10a to 3pm M-F, and you usually find out your crap's broken on a Friday afternoon at 4pm. Either pay the tech fees to get it fixed in a few hours, or sweat out the weekend and hope you can get to the parts depot first thing Monday.
Plumbing, well, you pay the premium for the tools, experience, and most importantly WARRANTY. The barrier to entry to do PEX is a big enough step to keep most plumbers in business. -
Question: is it best to back-in park while using HEB curbside?
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I mean, the text read "permanent suspension from SEC Conference games". I'm sure Yormark has an offer letter drawn up already.
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Since Herbie is talking about it, it might be true. But I do have to admit, his take on refs is shit. My view on refs is they should be in the background and not part of the game. When they interject themselves every chance they get and make blown calls left and right, they absolutely need to be questioned on it, especially when there's clear bias (see OSU games in 2015 and 2022).
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3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
Yall better never disrespect YellowHammer again!
Why?! I have still yet to see a single article that doesn't rely on them as their source of the news. FoxNews, ESPN, Yahoo, the Atlantic, all of them user YH as their source.
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LTYA cancelled all the soccer games for tomorrow, we're not getting a drop now.
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1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:
It's a local rag for some Alabama town that's pissy about the Auburn loss to Georgia. All other outlets are linking YH as the source of the story, and they have no cited source, nor has the SEC or NCAA or any other outlet reported this. I would permanently suspend my subscription to that paper pretty quickly.
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YellowHammer breaks the news, and all these other outlets are quoting YH as the source. This really stinks of Derrico Henrio trolling ESPN a few years back on X. I'd love for it to be true where they're actually cleaning house of corrupt / inept refs, but we've got better odds of ending the drought in central Texas before that happens.
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Can we get it from ANY reputable source? I've seen it posted from YellowHammer, and no clue who the hell they are. IF it was legit, you'd figure the SEC would release a statement, or at least BR or Barstool would release SOMETHING...
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15 hours ago, Orange&White said:
The second offense is a $100k penalty. The third offense the Head Coach is suspended for a game.
Second offense in a game, or second offense, PERIOD?
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39 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
Looks exactly like my friends daughter. I never turn down boating trips with them.
Note to self: don't invite MIA on the boat with the kids.
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43 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:
Holy shit.
Reminds me, the APD Booking Photos thread... It wasn't uncommon to see at least a few 2nd or more, and at least every other day a 3rd or more. That thread could use a resurrection, but it's a huge time suck!
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
in Daily Texan
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First off, does the Price / kwh factor in fees? Austin has a ton. Second off, Houston is not a monopoly. I can't speak for Dallas, but when I lived in Houston, we had the choice in power provider, so you can actually shop around. Austin, on the other hand, has no choices, if you're in Austin or a large swath of Travis County, you're forced to use them and pay their fees that are back-filling the general fund of the City of Austin. If you're "donating" this amount of money back to the general fund, it makes you wonder what kind of overcharging they're doing.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/why-does-austin-energy-transfer-millions-back-to-the-citys-general-budget/