No Good Deed Goes Unpunished As PG&E Seeks Higher Rates for Frugal Customers

hello there!:-0

wheres erin brockovich?

This is just the beginning, and you can't blame the power company. Too many people, especially Liberals, don't understand economics.

There is a base cost of operations for any and every thing. When consumption rises, the price per item gets cheaper.

For instance, if you go to a screenprinter - a maker of custom printed t-shirts - and want 1 custom shirt with 4 different colors on it, that shirt could cost over $100 dollars. But for $150 you can probably get 24 of the same shirt.

Less is often costs more, and vice versa.

The laws and regulations set forth by the government allow them to do this. They probably need to get regulatory approval to do this. I know in the health insurance industry, they need the permission of the government insurance commission to raise or lower prices. This is another example of corporatism made possible by government laws and regulations that protect PG&E.

Get real wrote:

This is just the beginning, and you can't blame the power company. Too many people, especially Liberals, don't understand economics.

Its the liberals who have taxed(penalized) the hard working and successful for decades and then lavished scads of taxpayer money on the lazy, shiftless, irresponsible with one social program after another.

The taxation system encourages high breeding for the poor.

The bailouts emboldens corporate irresponsibility.

The media encourages and hugely supports playing around.

The energy company here wants to raise rates to off set the "green" mandates. It seems windmills are pretty exspensive, and pretty much useless, so, they need more money to cover the cost. Can you think of any other business that could do this?

the above comments are on topic too. it illustrates the incosiderate nature of men/women which this increase is all about.

the same thing happened in north carolina 2 or 3 years ago...the citizens were STRONLY urged to conserve, they did, and the revenues for the utilities nose dived, so rates went up...

who takes it on the chin, no matter what?
you and me!

InTheCrapper wrote:

wheres erin brockovich?

Looking for another way to increase costs to users of electricity.

carey529 wrote:

the same thing happened in north carolina 2 or 3 years ago...the citizens were STRONLY urged to conserve, they did, and the revenues for the utilities nose dived, so rates went up...
who takes it on the chin, no matter what?
you and me!

That's what conservation is all about, especially if it comes from the power company. It drives down their quarterly profits so they can raise prices.

The poorest people keep their bills the lowest now the power company desires a legally approved method of stealing from them and then taking that exact same amount of money and crediting the accounts of those who use the most electricity.

Those who use the most electricity are business' and industry.

They already get a huge discount because of that classification.

Steal from the poor and give to the rich.

That is not a free market.

Rip Off wrote:

The poorest people keep their bills the lowest

Somebody else pays the electric bills of the poorest people.

Algernon Sidney wrote:

<quoted text>Somebody else pays the electric bills of the poorest people.

They don't pay mine and I'm one of the poorest people.

No credits, no subsidies, I pay the same as everyone else who is residential customer.

Raising prices on those with the lowest bills and giving that same amount of money to those who have the highest bills is stealing.

Plus those highest users already pay a fraction of what a residential customer pays.

In a few months I suppose they will be getting electricity for free since how low can you drive down the fee for electricity for those who use the most of it?

The poorest people are in this subsidizing the biggest users.

If you want socialism it has to be the other way around.

Rip Off wrote:

They don't pay mine and I'm one of the poorest people.

They would if you applied for the money. That is your choice and I have nothing against your decision. But don't pretend that the poorest people have to pay for their electricity.

Algernon Sidney wrote:

<quoted text>They would if you applied for the money. That is your choice and I have nothing against your decision. But don't pretend that the poorest people have to pay for their electricity.

No. I don't qualify for any subsidies.

That could be because around here the utilities are not regulated therefore there are no utility breaks for the poorest, the disable or the elderly as you will find in regulated areas.

In regulated ares there are breaks for them, at least in the winner time that is for electrical or gas customers, depending on which is used for heating.

For that matter, even government dispensed commodities are only given out one day per year around here.

Rip Off wrote:

No. I don't qualify for any subsidies.

Then you are not among the poorest. All electric utilities in the US are regulated. What is the name of your electricity supplier?