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I live in California and honestly one of the major reasons I will never go electric in California is PG&E. They will find a way to exploit electric cars to try
by happytiger 3y ago
I live in California and honestly one of the major reasons I will never go electric in California is PG&E. They will find a way to exploit electric cars to try to solve their self-created problems, and I refuse to pay them for their incompetence especially after so many have died at their hands.
Let me be specific. They killed 84 people with their negligence in Paradise alone, but they keep raising rates while never seeming to have the money to fix their problems. Did you know that in just 2021 the PG&E CEO Patricia Poppe was paid $51.2 million — the year that fire killed 84 Californians she made 51.2 million bucks for doing such a good job.
They can take their electric future and shove it right where the sun doesn’t shine. They want to make that company the center of California’s future.
And they want to raise rates again this year a huge amount on every single customer. After rolling back solar incentives for rooftop.
I’m sorry, I hate PG&E. Especially when you have models like SMUD and Roseville power just chugging along delivering power inside the same system at less than half the price. There is no excuse left for PG&E to continue as it has. They need to be broken up and someone like SMUD should take over.
- grecy 3y agoGet solar and a battery and never again even think of the words PG&E. They're terrible, so stop being a customer.
- happytiger 3y agoThis is the plan on the next house we buy. This one just doesn’t have the rooftop capacity.
- jjav 3y ago> Get solar and a battery and never again even think of the words PG&E. I so wish I had enough real estate square footage to put up solar to get rid of PG&E abuse. Unfortunately the space I have can only fit a few panels which won't make a dent. I still want to do it as a fun project, but it won't help much.
- jjav 3y ago> Especially when you have models like SMUD and Roseville power just chugging along delivering power inside the same system at less than half the price. And Palo Alto too. Every time I want to get depressed and cry a little I go look at the Palo Alto electric rates. I don't live that far from PA but being in the PG&E abuse zone, have to pay far more. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/4/utilities/rates-schedules-for-utilities/residential-utility-rates/e-1-effective-2023-07-01.pdf https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/4/utili...
- happytiger 3y agoThose… omg. Seriously? Those rates look like typos or time traveling prices from 1992. What?
- jjav 3y agoIndeed, right! That's what a public utility can do instead of a for-profit monopoly like PG&E which is just maximizing revenue from a captive audience.