Beam me to Planet Gore !
PT Barnum was born a century too early.
A ratepayer’s advocacy group, The Utility Reform Network of San Francisco, says the $600 million will go on electric bills that also might increase 30 percent in coming years to fund state-mandated greenhouse-gas-reduction programs.
“By cramming all these well-meaning proposals into electric bills, we may be creating more problems than we’re solving,” said TURN Executive Director Mark Toney. “With the economy in a downward spiral, higher rates mean more and more Californians will be unable to afford essentials like lighting, heating or cooling their homes, and cooking.”
What am I overlooking?
Here’s a “climate solution” for you - no charge:
FORGET ABOUT IT AND HAVE A BEER!!!
The climate is the climate and you can’t do a damned thing about it.
Oh, good. I’m glad they figured out their budget crisis.
What a dumbass idea happening in a dumbass state with a dumbass legislature and a dumbass governor.
Anybody know if these commissioners are appointed or elected?
What a dumbass idea happening in a dumbass state with a dumbass legislature and a dumbass governor.
Anybody know if these commissioners are appointed or elected?
“..$600 million research center to devise solutions for global warming..”
Spending $600 million to devise solutions for something that has not been proven to be true and increasing? This is not hairbrained, this is criminal.
The ratepayers should initiate a class action on it.
the hot air this will generate will take 1000 years to control
These dumb-arses would not complain if 98% of their income was taken. Why do they do this? Because nobody will stand up to it. I'm all for a doubling of this cost - why not triple it? These dummies won't mind. I have to travel to San Fran-sicko twice a year for 3-4 days. I see these idiots stting in all of these starbuck-types reading that horrible newspaper like it was all truth. Sickos - all of them.
$600 million would sure put up alot of solar panels on houses in the state. I bet the government could get a heckuva price on them too.
That would do a heckuiva lot more good than their damn Institute for Climate Solutions. Oh wait, if people had solar homes they wouldn’t use as much electricity and PG&E would collect alot less money.
Nevermind.
Al Gore could have taught Hitler and Goebbels a thing or two about “Big Lie” technique.
Irony of ironies. Arnold got voted in to replace Davis, who emptied ratepayers’ wallets and the state coffers to make Enron, et al, rich from a manufactured energy crisis. Arnold won on not being a career politician and on being independently wealthy and immune to bribes and dirty politics. He was going to root out and eliminate all the waste in Sacramento. HA! Now PG&E is going to rape the ratepayers once again. Ratepayer, taxpayer, it all boils down to us, the suckers. Obama reminds me of Arnold with his “I’m a political outsider, you can TRUST me.” HA! HA!
They had better get it built before the ground gets too frozen to dig a place for the foundation.