File this one under: gaslighting
Posted on 03/17/2023 3:24:34 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The notion that the Southern California Gas Company is seeking to raise rates by 13% borders on gross malfeasance and criminal conspiracy.
Yet most of my ire is not directed at SoCalGas but rather toward government institutions like the inept California Public Utilities Commission, the vacuous California governor and much of the Byzantine California State Legislature.
Yes … we can all indeed thank the political swamp that is Sacramento for our ever increasing natural gas, energy and fuel prices. Ever the political demagogue, Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding a federal investigation into high natural gas prices. The “pretty boy” Left Coast governor needs only to look into a vanity mirror to find his prime culprit responsible for our state’s soaring natural gas prices.
Even on the very best of days, our state climate and energy policies are plainly schizophrenic and always creating much more harm than good. Bureaucrats in agencies like the CPUC, the state legislature and even the governor’s office really need to go back and study some basic concepts about the economic principles of supply and demand.
As long as arrogant and close-minded California bureaucrats, like yourselves, continue to throttle the energy industry with excessive regulations, higher and higher taxes and user fees, denial of permits, with even more red tape on top of that, then natural gas prices will continue to surge.
In the meantime, I urge the CPUC and the rest of California’s state bureaucracies to stop the dogmatic resistance to natural gas and just for once consider that there is a moral case for the use of fossil fuels.
So, due to personal economics I am against raising the price of natural gas here in California. But even more so, I am ardently against bureaucracies like the CPUC throttling the natural gas industry thereby creating havoc and economic distortion to the energy supplies. Your policies, and those of most of California’s elected state politicians, directly result in supply shortages of natural gas which in turn fail to meet the demands of Californians. I find it reprehensible on your part.
The late U.S. president and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan’s witty observation seems especially fitting to this situation bedeviling Californians.
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it,” he said.
The California State Government, with its maze of top-heavy agencies and obscure commissions, totally exemplifies that timeless quote by “The Great Communicator.”
The CPUC is apparently economically illiterate. Dire predictions about self-inflicted energy shortages in California have been made years ago. It’s time for you all to finally wake up and get a clue.
File this one under: gaslighting
And now, in Los Angeles, they are asking EV owners to plug their EVs INTO the electric grid.
Not very long ago Kalifornia gov insisted EV owners NOT CHARGE the EV during peak power usage. Now, the DemocRATS want to TAKE whatever power is in EVs. Kalifornia refuses to build power plants & refineries. During many power emergencies, Kalifornia has to purchase out-of-state power. They shut down an NG power plant, replaced it with batteries that catch fire so often, they have to shut down for months & months.
Imagine the preferred democRAT future in Kalifornia, where you can only have an EV. You can only charge it when allowed. You can only use it when allowed. If they say we need the energy in your EV, you HAVE TO plug it into the grid. If you cannot get to the store for food, no worries, they will send you some good ‘ol government cheese.
An agency with a longer history of corruption would be hard to find anywhere
Amen! On the EV forums only newbie EV owners in California are signing up to use their EV to sell power to the grid. That's because the newbies are still true believers that their EV saves the world. But most of the EV owners there who've had an EV for a while are aghast at the idea of adding wear and tear to their EV battery to support the grid they hate.
As far as Governor Oily Hair's request that EV owners charge at night goes, that was a big publicity stunt. Before that all EV owners in California charged at night anyway because the power rate is much cheaper then. That was just Brylecream's way of sounding like he was doing something positive.
Mr Reiss, might I suggest you move from CA and get away from this nonsense?
HOW does a vehicle that NEEDS to be charged with electricity ‘sell power to the grid”???
An adapter on the EV allows it to discharge the battery when the utility says so.
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