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Cross posted from my thread on RC.....
What the **** is up with PG&E. If you guys did not notice a major rate hike went into effect Jan 1st. The 3rd in the last 14 months. We are now paying 47.39 cents per KW/h at the top tier. This is just beyond ridiculous. They can say its expensive in California but the top tier for Southern California Edison is 34.25 cents, San Diego Gas & Electric is 20.2 cents and Sacramento Municipal Utility District is 17.02 cents. This just makes no sense and needs to stop. It sounds like they are pondering even another rate increase later this year possibly just before the summer. I am extremely pissed about this and not sure how the CPUC is letting them get away with it.
Also to rub salt in our wounds, PG&E is single handedly pushing for and spending our rate payers money ($6.5M to date and many Millions more) getting Proposition 16 on the June Ballot. Prop 16 seeks to amend the state constitution so that local governments (city and counties) cannot buy wholesale power and sell it back to their citizens without the a super majority vote in an election. Even further if a super majority vote passes they city/county would need to ask the citizens again in another super majority vote to allow them to sell more power than was initially voted on. PG&E is pushing for this to keep their monopoly growing strong. We need to step up as a group and tell PG&E that we are unhappy. Instead of pushing for things like this they need to focus on delivering us clean and reasonably priced power, not power pricing at nearly 6x the national average. If they did that there would be no reason a city or county would be interested in getting into the power business.
Please check out http://www.powergrab.info/ for more info!!!
What the **** is up with PG&E. If you guys did not notice a major rate hike went into effect Jan 1st. The 3rd in the last 14 months. We are now paying 47.39 cents per KW/h at the top tier. This is just beyond ridiculous. They can say its expensive in California but the top tier for Southern California Edison is 34.25 cents, San Diego Gas & Electric is 20.2 cents and Sacramento Municipal Utility District is 17.02 cents. This just makes no sense and needs to stop. It sounds like they are pondering even another rate increase later this year possibly just before the summer. I am extremely pissed about this and not sure how the CPUC is letting them get away with it.
Also to rub salt in our wounds, PG&E is single handedly pushing for and spending our rate payers money ($6.5M to date and many Millions more) getting Proposition 16 on the June Ballot. Prop 16 seeks to amend the state constitution so that local governments (city and counties) cannot buy wholesale power and sell it back to their citizens without the a super majority vote in an election. Even further if a super majority vote passes they city/county would need to ask the citizens again in another super majority vote to allow them to sell more power than was initially voted on. PG&E is pushing for this to keep their monopoly growing strong. We need to step up as a group and tell PG&E that we are unhappy. Instead of pushing for things like this they need to focus on delivering us clean and reasonably priced power, not power pricing at nearly 6x the national average. If they did that there would be no reason a city or county would be interested in getting into the power business.
Please check out http://www.powergrab.info/ for more info!!!
), those rate hikes are affecting the most power hungry users the most, those who can keep it under control (aka non-reefers) only see hikes of about 3 tenths of a cent, where as that top tier saw 10 times that. I think it's their way of punishing people for using what they consider "too much power".
