National Fuel Action

Friday at high noon, come to the PUSH offices on Grant Street! We're gonna go talk to National Fuel's CEO about the HEAP money it receives to subsidize poor customers.

National Fuel got 30 million dollars in HEAP assistance last quarter (and there are four of those quarter thingies in any given year!) and can you guess how much of that was spent insulating and updating the often-ancient homes of its poorest and most-helpless customers?

I thought so, you were always a good egg, quick on the pickup.

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NONE! This is corporate welfare. As corporations do not draw breath, eat, nor die of exposure to cold (nor, indeed, die at all), we and others consider this a breach of the public trust, as we are forced, if we have natural gas infrastructure in our homes (and most do), to rely on National Fuel's government-sanctioned monopoly in gas distribution.

We promise, Friday will be serious, fun, and educational.

And hopefully some much-needed bad press for National Fuel.

[fist raised]

We The Free.

Give em Heck Carl!

Well, congratulations are certianly in order for Buffalo's beloved Carl Paladino. The plucky western new yorker finds himself helming the republican thrust for gov., and who better than a upstate developer who has shown time and time again his advanced theories on urban planning, making Buffalo the pinnacle of modernization. Thanks again Sir!

Of course there will always be naysayers, even our good friend Kristin Becker from the Dykes of Hazard has jumped on slagwagon, accusing Carl of being less than civilized when he visited Roxy's a few years ago. Of course it's really just Kristin's word against Carl's, but Kristin has posted a utube explaining the incident. http://www.youtube.com/user/wnymedia#p/a/u/2/wzNXxJGb3NY

That clip recently landed WNY Media's Marc Odien a few minutes of national press time when every lefty's favorite talking head, Rachel Maddow, interviewed him about the incident last week. It was less than riviting.

However, you can be sure Becker's newest project, http://www.buffalocomedy.com/ , will continue to hammer on Carl like Eddie Van Halen soloing after having drunk fourteen cups of expresso. The site is great if you think people from upstate new york have anything close to a sense of humor. And of course you can catch her every week hosting Tuesday night comedy at Nietzches, as well as her monthly Dykes of Hazard sketch show at Babeville.

Paladino's assumed opponent will be the poster boy for QEFTSG, Andrew Cuomo, who's father Mario was often so busy running N.Y. in the 80's that Andrew spent the majority of his formative years with his plumber uncle, Luigi.

xhearto