The big three utility companies in California are proposing a plan to charge residents based on their fixed-incomes, resulting in lower earners paying less and higher earners paying more.
PG&E, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, are the three utilities issuing this proposal. The companies made their proposition known in a joint letter filed to the state Public Utilities Commission.
KCAL News explains that this proposal is in response to ‘a new state law requires utility companies in California to come up with a fixed-rate plan to help stabilize rates and make bills more affordable.’
If accepted, the monthly bills would be at a fixed-rate, with some of the lowest earners having to pay only a measly $15 a month, while other households earning over $180,000 will have to pay at least $85 per month.
KCAL provides a further breakdown of the costs:
- Households earning less than $28,000 a year would pay a fixed charge of $15 a month on their electric bills in Edison and PG&E territories and $24 a month in SDG&E territory.
- Households with annual income from $28,000 to $69,000 would pay $20 a month in Edison territory, $34 a month in SDG&E territory and $30 a month in PG&E territory.
- Households earning from $69,000 to $180,000 would pay $51 a month in Edison and PG&E territories and $73 a month in SDG&E territory.
- Those with incomes above $180,000 would pay $85 a month in Edison territory, $128 a month in SDG&E territory and $92 a month in PG&E territory.
The Public Utilities Commission would have to approve this proposition and make a final decision on it by mid-2024, and could implemented by early 2025.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Even the broadcasters can’t help but let their frustrations be heard in their tone of voices!
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 12:24
This just screams of, “You’ll own nothing and be happy.” Assuming this actually gets passed, and if other states do something similar, then families will be incentivized to work even less than they already are. In states like California the homeless, illegals, blacks, ethnic minorities, and perverts are already granted all kinds of handouts and stimulus, so why bother working when you can suck off of the system and live on food stamps, peddle fentanyl and crack, and rob your local Walmart without any fear of going to jail? That’s the state of Southern California and so many other cities across the nation.
But as I said, if lower income homes are charged very little, then why bother working, especially as inflation only goes higher and the rest of the economy collapses?
And because of fixed energy usage as proposed by these utilities, this acts as a proxy to really enforce the acceptance of a smart meter; a dark horse for control that does not get enough rebuke like they should, for those devices can be remotely controlled and tethered to the rest of the home, connected to a social credit score and the utility itself.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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