Comments on: FPL CEO lunches with Obama at White House

By: Donna Melzer

Donna Melzer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:31:10 +0000

When will the requirement that limits the top executive happen on these essential services? The taxpayers and the environment keep being punished while the top execs like FPL “go to power lunches with their power salaries!” The pay gap between the executives and the taxpayers just keeps widening.

Wasn’t it Ford who said that I need to pay my workers enough so they can buy my Model-T? We don’t need the Rolls.

By: FPL CEO, other execs dine at White House - on their own dime | Post on Politics

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:07:31 +0000

[...] Group CEO Lew Hay and three other chief executives broke bread with President Barack Obama today in the president’s private dining [...]

By: Green guy

Green guy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:58:41 +0000

Jonathan, you’re an idiot. It says they’re not paying themselves, it’s an expense to improve things. And it’s actually not that much in the grand scheme of things. FPL may have issues but I’m glad that they’re building a solar plant in Florida and making other efforts for renewable energy.

By: Jonathan B. Horen

Jonathan B. Horen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:39:25 +0000

That’s wonderful. Meanwhile, FPL just got hit with a $25-million fine for a February 2008 blackout. But, get this: $10-million goes to the US Treasury, $10-million goes to the NARC (North American Reliability Council), and the remaining $5-million goes to FPL, to be spent on “reliability improvements”. At least, they’re not allowed to recoup the $25-million from us ratepayers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/us/09blackout.html?hp

What’s up with the $10-million to the US Treasury? and the $10-million to the NARC? So, FPL pays $5-million to itself??! WTF??