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A
Welcome
to
Columbus
connections:
I
am
your
host.
David,
Britt
and
kids
just
went
back
to
school.
So
if
you're
like
me,
you
had
a
very
high
electricity
bill.
You
just
want
to
send
them
back
on
the
bus,
then
take
that
Georgia
Power
bill
with
them.
Well,
it
may
not
just
be
because
it's
hot
outside
or
it
may
not
just
be
because
your
kids
we're
inside
all
summer
long
with
the
air
on
72
degrees.
A
It
may
be
that
your
house
is
not
as
energy
efficient
as
it
could
be,
and
you
don't
think
about
that
as
much
when
we're
talking
about
poverty
and
income
and
just
living
life,
one
of
the
things
that
you
could
be
doing
to
help
yourself
not
with
your
home
and
where
you
live
in
just
your
lifestyle.
That's
what
my
next
guest
is
here
to
talk
about:
miss
Bonita
Haynes
with
Georgia
watch
hi.
There
thank.
A
B
Georgia
watch
we
are
a
501
C,
3,
non-profit,
we're
located
in
Atlanta,
but
we
work
statewide
on
consumer
issues.
So
all
those
issues
that
affect
quality
of
life,
our
real
goal
is
to
push
for
a
future
of
equity
and
justice
for
all
Georgians,
and
that
really
requires
looking
at
all
of
those
issues
that
low-income
Georgians
in
particular,
are
dealing
with
on
a
day
to
day
basis
that
affect
their
quality
of
life,
utility
bills
and
energy
bills.
Healthcare
access,
financial
protection.
B
Are
you
looking
into
short-term
high
interest,
predatory
loans
that
may
trap
you
into
poverty
right
and
access
to
civil
justice?
Have
you
forfeited
your
right
to
our
bure?
You
know
to
go
to
court
stuck
yourself
into
arbitration
agreement
that
kind
of
thing,
so
we
work
across
all
of
those
issues
and
we
do
that
through
education,
as
well
as
policy
work
and
the
energy
space
in
particular.
We
are
very,
very
fixated
on
ensuring
that
Georgians
don't
have
to
deal
with
that
crazy
$500
utility
bill
in
the.
A
B
Of
the
winter,
because
they're
living
in
an
energy
inefficient
home
now
when
we
say
things
like
energy
inefficient,
what
does
that
actually
mean?
It
sounds
kind
of
wonky,
but
energy
of
inefficiency
in
a
nutshell,
means
you're
living
in
a
home
that
has
lots
of
leaks
and
drafts.
It's
almost
like.
You
have
the
door
open.
Whenever
you
have
the
heat.
A
B
Your
heater
is
just
running
and
running,
and
you
were
spending
lots
of
money
to
keep
that
place
warm
because
all
that
heats
going
right
onto
the
coal.
Many
folks
around
the
state
in
Columbus
and
elsewhere
find
themselves
living
in
energy
inefficient
homes,
especially
if
they're
living
in
old
houses,
which
can
make
their
housing
really
unaffordable
right.
A
A
B
A
B
Been
having
these
energy
equity
forms
as
we
like
to
call
them
around
the
state
we
actually
started
out
in
Camilla
down.
We
in
Southwest
Georgia
you've
been
on
tour.
Okay,
just
do
a
little
state
to
it
yeah,
and
we
did
one
back
in
Columbus
in
May
with
some
partners
here:
locally
United
Way
of
the
Chattahoochee
Valley,
all
its
enrichment
services
I
mean
who
better
to
understand
what
people
really
need
in
Columbus
and
they
were
eager
to
get
us
to
come
back
out
again.
So
we're
having
a
second
energy
equity
forum
in
October.
B
Look
at
the
Columbus
library,
the
central
one.
Here
we
what's
the
date
on
that
it's
October
13th
from
10
a.m.
to
3
p.m.
so
I'm
asking
folks
to
give
me
part
of
their
sailor
today
and
believe
me.
We
keep
a
tight
schedule,
so
I'll
get
you
right
out
of
there
and
the
purpose
of
that
forum
is
to
bring
together
community
members
and
residents
as
well
as
utility
leaders,
so
we'll
have
someone
from
Georgia
power
they're
talking
about
programs.
They
have
available
as
well
as
advocates
from
around
the
state.
To
just
talk
about
very
specific
ways.
B
Power
strips
sealing
up
cracks
around
your
windows,
which
is
very
cheap
and
easy
to
do
actually
to
also
programs
that
are
available
to
help
you
make
some
of
those
more
expensive
improvements
like
insulating
your
attic
and
things
of
that
nature.
And
then
what
can
we
do
to
really
push
the
legislators
and
policymakers
to
create
better
programs
so
that
folks
are
not
having
to
deal
with
that
reality
of
a
$500
utility
bill?
B
A
B
A
B
Yeah,
it's
always
important
to
me
to
combine
the
tangible
practical.
This
is
what
I
can
do
today
with
the
forward-thinking.
What
can
I
do
to
instead
of
putting
out
the
fire
all
the
time?
What
can
I
do
to
prevent
the
fire
in
the
first
place?
It's
really
what
it's
about
and
that's
the
policy
side
of
what
we
do
so
one
thing
that
George
and
watch
spends
a
lot
of
time.
B
Doing
is
lobbying
on
behalf
of
Georgia
consumers
down
at
the
legislature
and
at
other
legislative
bodies
like
the
Public
Service
Commission,
we're
down
there
trying
to
appeal
to
the
better
nature's
of
our
legislators
and
policymakers
doing
that
through
storytelling
like
is
it?
How
important
is
it
to
bring
a
real
live
person
before
the
legislature
before
the
policymakers
to
but
those
folks
here
what
regular
people
are
going
through
everyday?
A
B
B
The
benefit
of
power
strips
is
that
you
don't
have
to
go
around
your
house,
I'm,
plugging
everything
before
you
leave
you
just
flip
off
the
one
power
strip
and
you're
good
to
go
right,
and
then
they
have
fancy
power
strips
where
you
can
turn
certain
things
off
on
the
power
strip
and
these
certain
things
on
thermostats.
So
there's
a
fancy:
thermostat
called
the
nest,
thermostat
and
then
there's
also
a
couple
of
other
ones
that
allow
you
to
actually
control
your
thermostat
remotely
yeah.
B
B
I
personally
installed
in
this
thermostat,
which
Georgia
Power
has
like
an
instant
rebate
rebate
for
it.
When
you
buy
it
from
your
marketplace,
it
can
still
be
very
expensive
for
folks,
though,
but
some
programs
Georgia
Power,
has
will
provide
those
for
free.
That's
the
thing,
but
it's
wonderful.
Let's
say
you
leave
home
and
you
forget
to
turn
your
thermostat
like
down
low
enough
so
that
it
doesn't
come
on
too
often,
while
you're
away
cuz.
You
don't
want
to
be
cooling
your
house
when
you're,
not
there
yeah.