Monday, May 19, 2014

You Probably Never Noticed This Fee On Your Electric Bill…But It Raised $40 Billion — Now Wait Until You Hear What the Gov’t Did With It | TheBlaze.com

You Probably Never Noticed This Fee On Your Electric Bill…But It Raised $40 Billion — Now Wait Until You Hear What the Gov’t Did With It | TheBlaze.com: Uncle Sam has been nickel-and-diming Americans to pay for a nuclear waste disposal facility that doesn’t exist.

But on Friday, after a protracted legal battle between the Department of Energy and power companies, the feds are backing down.

For 30 years, customers who got their energy from nuclear power plants had an extra fee tacked on to their monthly bills, ostensibly to pay for the cost of disposing nuclear waste.

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