Posted on 04/22/2002 10:46:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:35:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The PUC studies rate adjustments to ease costs for some heavy users.
Lavis and Joan Mundell thought they had found the perfect spot for retirement, on four rolling acres with apple trees, pecans and a pond.
Not long after the former schoolteacher and nurse moved to Auburn from the Bay Area three years ago, their son, his fianc
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Sounds like his son is a free loader and has really expanded his Kali type family since he moved back in with Mom and Dad.
During all of this whining I keep hearing what I have been hearing since this hit the fan, a year ago last January.
This guy wants a partially free lunch re his utility bill. He is probably an avid enviralist and hates any new construction of power plants. So he wants the rest of us, businesses or out of staters to subsidize his use of electricity.
This comment by the liberal Bee writer shows his political standing: Among them, why aren't baselines also adjusted for the number of occupants or for square footage of homes? Should they be more generous to the largely rural residents whose water-pumping systems drive up their power bills? Should they be eliminated for electrical service in second homes? And do the existing climate zone boundaries make sense?
Why should those of us with one or two family members pay extra for a family like this one with the free loading son and his rapidly extended family.
Why should Ernest and others who live in small houses have to subsidize people in larger homes and bigger families?
No one held a gun against the head of this teacher and made him buy a home with a water pump. Why should the 30 million of us who live in homes/apartments without water pumps pay for his life style choices to live in the country and have a pump for water.
He choose to move an area that can get very hot in the summer. Should Ernest and I be forced to subsidize his electrical bill as we choose to live in areas with cooler climates and therefore don't need to cool our homes with AC as much as living in Auburn. In fact I moved from the Sac area to get away from the heat and did not install AC until two years ago, 23 years after moving here.
Just put out a flat rate for electricity and if you can't afford the bill, you will either find ways to adjust or will have to move. Get some competition in the mix so we can have choices driven by competitive prices.
My advice to this whiner is to sell his home and move into a one bedroom apartment in a cooler area. That will force his free loading son to go else where. That will really cut down on his utility costs. Tough, but why should the rest of us subsidize his life choices and his free loading son.
To: Dog Gone;Ditter;Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Averages" are really misleding when it comes to energy use. You are lumping in millions of city people who live in apartments along coast and don't use much electricity with rural people who have to pump their own water and need air conditioning. (The electricity used to supply water to city dwellers shows up on their water bill, not their electric bill.)
California offers no break in the "baseline rates" for rural people who are on water wells.
As a consequence, the predominantly republican rural residents pay through the nose each month for electricity in order to subsidize the predominantly democrat city folks.
Nice scam, Davis!
Is this "large extended family" in a "potentially not well described climate zone" really being harmed compared to others with "good stories. Will "good" people be harmed no mater what the circumstances in a rationing (i.e. tiered rates) situation? Yes. Earth to CPUC, either stop or get over it and move on.
I can't wait until politians get brave (or environmentally crazy) enough to try to ration gasoline.....besides using the Cafe (sp?) standards. The people with the SUV's, the buses, and the poor with old poor mileage clunkers will both demand special treatment.
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