AmerenUE now wants an 18% rate hike. The third requested in 3 years.

Here is a better idea. Why don’t we have Mr. Baxter and all the high-paid execs take a big pay cut.

Instead of making their millions in pay, bonuses…

A few weeks ago, I asked an Ameren spokesman why the corporation didn’t issue stock to pay for its new nuclear plant. That’s the normal way corporations work, after all.

He replied that nobody would buy stock to build a…

Mr. Quinn in an article on 3/26 states “proponents of nuclear power like to say that sustainable energy from the wind and sun is too limited, yet last year the town of Rock Port ,Missouri made national news for being…

Let’s review the business privileges of two financial conglomerates: ExxonMobil and Ameren Electric. The first one, ExxonMobil, during the past year, reaped outstanding profits that exceeded those of each quarter. During this time, the price of a barrel of oil…

Missourians passed an initiative in 1976 to ban raising electric rates while building a new power plant (Construction Work in Progress). Now a 25-page bill to repeal this ban is before the legislature. It is full of special interest regulations…

How many of you understand your Ameren bill when it comes in the mail? How many of you have gone online or requested information only to find more corporatese that makes no sense? Having stumbled upon the “CubFacts” information sheet…

Vote No on Everything. Well, almost everything. When you go to the polls in a little more than a week, be sure to vote against Proposition A, C and Constitutional amendment 1.

Proposition A is first and foremost another sin…

Reference:  Critics say Ameren customers are paying extra for nothing, By Michael Sorkin

Ameren needs to stop the gimmicks like their Pure Power Program and get serious about investing in efficiency and clean, safe and renewable energy.   A department of energy…

Reading the story titled “Ameren raised by S&P ahead of Illinois rate decision” I’m left to wonder one thing: is it just me, or did anybody else notice there’s no mention of the impact another utility rate hike will have on…