WILLIAM B. HARRISS' MOUTHPIECE GETS IT WRONG AGAIN (THIS TIME, ON FPL)

The article below states: "The city has three main options: renew its franchise with FPL, use FPL's services without the franchise, or buy out FPL's equipment in St. Augustine and start its own electric company."

The Fourth Option is to work with Jacksonville Electric Authority, Clay Electric and St. Johns County to take over FPL's service area.

That's the option that will save ratepayers money. JEA rates -- and those of other public power electric utilities -- are among the lowest in the Nation. Fully 255 of Floridians get power from public power, including Tallahassee, Orlando, Jacksonville and Gainesville.

As usual, the City of St. Augustine uses its sophistry to deprive the public of information and expertise, denying the bleeding obvious -- we can save money on electric power and not be beholden to FPL, which retaliates against whistleblowers and heavily relies on dangerous nuclear powerplants (the cost of which FPL bills us for in advance as Cost of Work in Progress or CWIP).