I live in San Rafael, and thanks for the reminder of how our gas bills are presently put together. I’m going to have to take a good close look. Make sure I’m not paying more because of my ‘Energy Footprint’.
I didn’t know Tom Steyer was up in this area too.
Maybe he stays in someplace like Tiburon, Belvedere, Kentfield or Mill Valley; all places I could never afford to live in.
Lee, if you've been co-opted into MCE, you can “opt out” at any time. All the local NorCal governments have been sucked into this boondoggle. We own commercial property in Napa, and live in Danville. In both places, the city governments have gone all in for MCE. Basically, MCE is a forced subsidy for solar and wind energy, neither of which are cost-effective. They basically are trying to “humble you” into paying a lot more for your electricity, and at the same time, damage PG&E's business. And now, we see that PG&E is selling off it's generating capacity and evolving into a distribution company. The big generating plant down in Moss Landing is no longer owned by PG&E. I race with guys who work down at the Diablo Canyon nuke plant, and they tell me that it's days are numbered.
All of it is nonsense, since the only rationale for electric cars is cheap power. It doesn't make any sense to charge your Tesla with electricity that's been produced by burning oil or natural gas. It would pollute the environment less if you just drove a regular car with all of it's emission controls.
Stayer lives in a Pacific Heights estate. He drives a Tesla. He has a personal trainer who lives and works in Marin so he is often there.