PG&E yet AGAIN!!!

[KamaAina]

Now the modern-day robber barons want to pay for rate cuts to people who air-condition huge homes in the 100-degree Central Valley summers by socking it to the poor!

From Disability Rights Advocates, a public interest law firm:

PG&E has proposed to substantially increase the amount of revenue it collects from low-income residential customers on CARE by making multiple changes to its residential rates. Virtually all of the money would then be used to reduce rates for those residential customers who use the most energy, including those who run pool equipment and air condition large houses in the Central Valley.

First, PG&E has proposed adding a new monthly “customer charge,” an additional fee on every bill. Next, PG&E has proposed adding a new higher rate category, known as a “tier” for CARE customers, and then increasing the rate charged in this new tier each year.

:grr: :banghead: :argh:

A hearing on this bilge is to take place Thursday morning the 5th, 10 am, at the CPUC offices at 505 Van Ness (at McAllister) in The City.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Pacific Greed and Extortion is one of the best reasons why . . .

. . . public utilities should be owned by the public.

[KamaAina]

2. The City tried that a while back

the measure failed narrowly, perhaps because boxes full of ballots were literally found floating in the Bay. :wtf:

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Valley bashing yet again!!!

Lots of energy hogs out there who are nowhere near the Central Valley and yet you single us out. Our rates are some of the highest in the nation. Very few people I know can afford to run anything but the bare minimum in the summer. We don't even use our central air unit in the summer but rely on window units and fans in the back of the house.

THE ISSUE is the fact that PG&E wants to raise rates on CARE customers to pay for energy hogs ALL OVER THE STATE.

[KamaAina]

4. The Valley bashing is coming from DRA, not me

I can imagine that Palm Springs and vicinity are the worst offenders statewide, but they're not in PG&E's service area.

One can only imagine how horrible some of the Bay Area's numerous McMansions would be in this regard, if we needed AC more than two or three times a year.