BREAKING News Out Of California…
It's HORRIBLE California's top utility regulator has suggested
charging people that live in rural areas more money for electricity than city slickers since
they are at risk for power issues that cause wildfires.
Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, made the suggestion
during a Jan. 31 meeting on fire safety.
He questioned the fairness of all utility customers paying the costs of averting wildfires
in rural areas, FOX News reports.
"Should we actually start to charge deferentially for the use of the distribution system for
those sections that are in the high-fire-hazard zone and people who choose to live there?"
Picker asked, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
"As we spend more to harden the grid and protect people in those high-risk areas, how
do we pay for it?" he asked.
"If you're in Richmond, do you want to be paying to protect vacation homes in Napa?"
Picker is obviously oblivious to how much money is spent on illegal aliens and people
on welfare- not to mention that I live in the mountains but my taxes go to pay for their
roads and all their bullshit.
Picker bitched about how much it costs to prevent fires in rural California.
Some of the measures require chopping down millions of trees, replacing wooden poles
with steel and burying the lines underground.
"Here we're facing costs for upgrading the grid that primarily benefits one group
of people," Picker said.
"I'm just trying to come up with ways to figure out how we do this fairly, but still
manage to serve people who live in these high-risk areas.
Because, no doubt, they need electricity."
Go to hell lib.
"It's a policy decision that's pretty firmly entrenched that the price should be
the same wherever you live," Mike Florio, who served on the California Public Utilities
Commission from 2011 through 2016, told the Chronicle.
Residents in rural areas also do end up paying more extra to utility companies for starting
the service, especially if the rural home is further away from existing power lines.
But the price of the electricity remains the same for all the people, even as utility companies
admit it is more expensive to provide services to someone living in rural areas.
Bullshit.
Any serious consideration to charge rural residents more than their urban counterparts
for electricity is sure to cause a political backlash.
Their representatives would surely object to the initiative.
Florio reminded that the unpopular fire-prevention fee levied on rural homeowners in the state
was suspended last year after California Gov. Jerry Brown tried to court the votes of lawmakers
from rural California in a bid to pass the state's greenhouse cap-and-trade system.
"The rural legislators made the price of their support getting rid of that fee,"
Florio said.
"And that was a modest attempt at making the user pay."
Meanwhile California is building a bullet train that leads to nowhere.
Cost climbs by $2.8 billion for California bullet train.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
– Officials increased the cost estimate for the first phase of California's high
speed rail project by 35 percent on Tuesday, to $10.6 billion.
There's your money dude- now take you a-hole ideas and stick them where the sun don't
shine you filthy liberal pile of garbage.
I really need to get the hell out of Commiefornia.
God Bless America!
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