Power bills in California have jumped
nearly 50% in four years. Democrats think
they have solutions
Associated Press,
by
Tran Nguyen
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/7/2025 8:38:39 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers this week advanced several efforts aimed at reining in utility profits and slashing electricity bills as part of their agenda to tackle the sky-high costs of living. The proposals would make sweeping changes to how utilities fund expensive infrastructure projects like putting power lines underground to guard against wildfires. They also would add more oversight around wildfire mitigation spending and put new requirements on utility requests to increase rates. Supporters said the goal is to make the big investor-owned utilities start sharing some of the costs to fight wildfires and build new transmission infrastructure. “This
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 6/7/2025 8:43:08 AM (No. 1961062)
Sure, blame it on the profits... Maybe if they weren't so hamstrung with regulations and taxes, prices could be held at a reasonable level. Wait, let's shut down some generating stations, to save Mother Earth.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
raspberry 6/7/2025 8:47:22 AM (No. 1961065)
Oh. I know. Let's use nuclear power to cut California power costs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
red1066 6/7/2025 9:20:40 AM (No. 1961074)
California of the east Maryland isn't far behind. After years of banning any new power plants and closing those that use coal because phony climate claims, Maryland now imports close to 50% of its power from other states which charge more for electric for doing so. Now everyone's electric bill is going up as a result. Demosluts running this state have no plan to increase power generation, but cling to the global warming narrative. The idiot voters of this state will continue to vote for demosluts expecting something to change. Is there anything demosluts don't screw up?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
paral04 6/7/2025 9:24:15 AM (No. 1961076)
Have these geniuses checked out how much cheaper it is to produce electricity with nuclear power? And those wildfires are bad because the state won't manage the forests and open lands.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Msquared112 6/7/2025 9:37:21 AM (No. 1961083)
Why can't Democrats in CA connect how they vote to their abysmal problems?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/7/2025 9:43:06 AM (No. 1961086)
How about they throw their renewable energy schtick in the waste basket and get back to fossil fuel-fired electrical generation. And more nuke plants. How simple.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 6/7/2025 10:01:57 AM (No. 1961088)
The democrats are not interested in cheap power though they are interested in power...for themselves. Power and money............and misery for everyone else.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/7/2025 10:12:05 AM (No. 1961090)
The only thing California government is doing is buying votes. That's not governing. Californians might want to invest in candles.
Btw, the rise in utility prices is happening all over the country. That's what happens when the dollar gets de-valued. That's what happens when government (at all levels, both parties) spends your money and gets nothing back in return. And we the people keep voting them back in when we should be showing them the door.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimincalif 6/7/2025 10:12:47 AM (No. 1961091)
So utilities have to use “public financing” and this would supposedly save ratepayers $8.8 billion. Except where, exactly does this “public financing” come from? Government has no money itself, it all comes from taxpayers in the end. Just another political cup game of trying to obfuscate where the money comes from.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/7/2025 10:24:51 AM (No. 1961097)
California politicians are currently in the stage of ‘Read instructions when everything else fails’. The people who vote for them aren’t much behind.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 6/7/2025 10:38:43 AM (No. 1961103)
Oh yeah, govern me HARDER, California!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 6/7/2025 11:04:45 AM (No. 1961107)
Dem politicians are really stupid…cockily so. And they will never change. Doesn’t say much for their voters, either.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/7/2025 11:28:28 AM (No. 1961114)
Voters who never receive what they've been promised and continue to vote for DimoTwits anyway, deserve all the results.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/7/2025 11:33:21 AM (No. 1961117)
Everything the Democrats have done for the last 20 plus years has greatly increased electricity costs, they have never done anything to lower costs.
In summer, bills of over $1000 isn't unusual for those that run their AC a lot. I'm lucky being just a few miles from the cool Pacific it rarely gets into the 90s here and cools off at night.
Where I work they used to do manufacturing here, 2 years ago they move the manufacturing to another state with lower electric bills.
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"We're from the government, and we're here to help," said the "California lawmakers." My advice to Californians: Run the other way while you can.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 6/7/2025 12:15:56 PM (No. 1961123)
I thought California was going to set utility rates based on income, where the "poor" would pay a low, flat fee while the "rich" (not including, of course, the favored and well-connected politically) would pay their "fair share".
What's the problem with that?
(Sarcasm key now turned OFF.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 12:31:34 PM (No. 1961130)
Dems created the huge jump in power, I can guarantee that any "solutions" that these destroyers will have will make it WORSE. That's a certainty.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/7/2025 1:08:32 PM (No. 1961142)
Basically what the Democrats have done is use the utilities as their new "big tobacco" where they can blame them for everything and have them have to pay to fix the failure to have properly used forest management and brush clearing for decades.
The utilities ends up obtaining the oversight approvals (same Democrats) to increase their prices to cover X, Y and Z.
No one ends up looking like they failed to do their job and the boogie man is the utility company not some liberal Democrat policy that was demanded by the extremely liberal environmental groups for the past 40+ years.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
vinegrower 6/7/2025 1:18:43 PM (No. 1961151)
The utility rates in Calif have to be ok'd by the politicians. The politicians in Calif (super majority Democrat for many years) instructed PG&E to work on 'green energy' NOT to spend the research and develop money on improving the electrical grid or improving the transmission lines. Much of Calif has overhead lines which have led to many of the wildfires, along with poor forest management.
I don't understand why the citizens of Calif don't realize the Democrats are screwing us and have been for decades.
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I'm sure the "solution" will involve huge levels of graft for the politicians involved.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 6/7/2025 1:50:56 PM (No. 1961175)
I installed solar panels a couple of years ago which didn't eliminate a power bill, but it dropped to $48. Just recently it has doubled to $98, and guess what? It appears that they get to steal the excess power I generate.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
crashnburn 6/7/2025 3:07:58 PM (No. 1961198)
If CA elections are fair (which is doubtful), they are getting what they deserve, good and hard.
I moved from CA to CO a little over a year ago and I feel I moved to Crazy from Bat Shite Crazy.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
hershey 6/7/2025 3:17:40 PM (No. 1961201)
The only solution for Kalifornians is to dump ALL democrap legislators and go conservative...nothing else will help them...they deserve what they vote for if they haven't already figured that out...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/7/2025 4:48:30 PM (No. 1961228)
The only practical solution is to move far away from California. The southern half of the state is FUBAR.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/7/2025 4:58:04 PM (No. 1961232)
It sounds like the California Democrats are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, again!
They insist using costly, unreliable wind and solar power and refusing to build reliable fossil, nuclear, and hydro power plants resulting in power shortages requiring power to be supplied by other states at premium prices.
Unable to meet existing demand, they are adding to increasing demand by mandating EVs and all electric appliances.
Failure to do proper forestry management results in increasingly destructive forest fires that destroys power distribution infrastructure.
None of this is being addressed by the proposed legislation.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/7/2025 5:39:38 PM (No. 1961241)
"The proposals would make sweeping changes to how utilities fund expensive infrastructure projects like putting power lines underground to guard against wildfires. They also would add more oversight around wildfire mitigation spending and put new requirements on utility requests to increase rates."
And there.
Right there, you have the solution to the problem of
utility bills rising only 50%.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/7/2025 9:41:26 PM (No. 1961329)
Hey California residents, YOU VOTED FOR THIS, Blame Yourselves and Pony UP!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 6/8/2025 9:32:23 AM (No. 1961547)
CA Resident: "Gas is expensive, food is expensive, rents are out of control. What are you guys doing to us?'
CA Politician: "It is Trump's fault."
CA Resident: "Oh, OK. Did not realize that. I apologize."
CA Politician: "No worries. We know you are not smart enough to realize what is going on. Now be a good little sheeple and vote Democrat."
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/8/2025 10:16:51 AM (No. 1961577)
Deregulate!
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