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Long Island resident charged up over post-Sandy electric bills

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The New York Post reported that Long Island residents received an estimated rate that covered the entire billing cycle, and the statements made no mention of potential refunds to account for the prolonged blackouts. 'I guess they had power, so they could print my bills. Nice, right? '- Jonathan Saporta, Long Island resident "I can't get LIPA to acknowledge my existence on earth to talk to me about anything," Jonathan Saporta told the paper after getting hit with $649 for a home he left in October and $281 bill for his new place. "But I guess they had power, so they could print my bills. Nice, right?" The paper reported that LIPA did not return phone calls seeking comment. The paper reported that Con Ed, the utility that lights up Manhattan, wants to refund its city customers who lost power $3 and customers from the outer boroughs $6.

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Jonathan Saporta

Overall Sentiment: 0.110509

Relevance: 0.913278

Sentiment	Quote
-0.135439	"I can't get LIPA to acknowledge my existence on earth to talk to me about anything," Jonathan Saporta told ...
0	"I can't get LIPA to acknowledge my existence on earth to talk to me about anything," Jonathan Saporta told the paper after getting hit with $649 for a home he left in October and $281 bill for his new place. "But I guess they had power, so they could print my bills. Nice, right?"
0	"I am not paying any of my bills, that much I promise," Saporta said. ...
-0.0349676	"I am not paying any of my bills, that much I promise," Saporta said. "They can put me into collections, and I'll fight them tooth-and-nail."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 4 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1704066 Mean: -0.04260165 Standard Deviation: 0

Con Ed

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.230138

Manhattan

Overall Sentiment: -0.147777

Relevance: 0.194316

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GeographicFeature: Long Island

Overall Sentiment: 0.261233

Relevance: 0.337523

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Long Island resident charged up over post-Sandy electric bills

Site Provided Keywords:

• con ed
• estimated rate
• hurricane
• Hurricane Sandy
• island power
• long island
• long island power authority
• lost
• lost power
• manhattan
• New York
• new york post
• outer boroughs

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Some Long Island Power Authority customers are charged up after they received their normal electric bill despite spending weeks without power due to Hurricane Sandy.

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