Posted on 06/06/2023 1:52:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California will soon become the first state to determine residents’ electricity fees based on their income as part of a new effort to spur households toward full electrification and bring down the state’s soaring electricity costs for low-income Californians.
Electricity bills are made up of fixed costs as well as fees that vary based on the amount of electricity residents use. Last year, the state passed a law giving the California public utilities commission a 1 July 2024 deadline to determine a fixed charge for household electric bills based on people’s income.
The new income-based electricity bills could hit residents’ mailboxes as soon as 2025. Based on proposals currently under consideration, residents who make more than $180,000 a year could pay about $500 more annually on their electricity bills, while Californians who make less than $28,000 annually could save up to $300 a year. The law is part of the state’s answer of how to equitably transition away from carbon as an energy source.
But state officials are already facing backlash from higher-income residents who don’t want to see their bills increase. The proposals have so far received more than 250 public comments, with a large number opposing the law.
“Why should I pay for someone else’s bill when I paid thousands for solar?” one commenter wrote.
California currently has some of the highest electricity costs of any state, according to a report that suggested the income-based model. California’s electricity prices range from one and a half times to double the national average.
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They have a disability. They have no ability to learn from their mistakes.
No, Marxism am 101….
“Why should I pay for someone else’s bill when I paid thousands for solar?” one commenter wrote
No comment needed.
Just one more MORAL reason to hide income.
So California is trying to make electricity more affordable by forcing more people to use electricity while at the same time limiting its production and forcing extremely expensive “green” garbage?
Only in government maffs does this make sense.
Because THIS time socialism will work!
“Why should I pay for someone else’s bill when I paid thousands for solar?” one commenter wrote.
Somebody wanna tell him he’s paying a lot of other people’s bills already
If I may be brutally frank: For those of us who don’t live, or who no longer live in CA, what the eff do we care? Cynical but true.
They didn’t. The 19th amendment did.
“Richer” does not necessary parallel “higher income”.
If I have 10M saved for retirement,a paid off house, but I am only taking 40k a year to live on what do I pay?
Gee, sounds like California might be a place where money wouldn’t want to go. Wonder what will happen there…hmmmm…?
“The incentive to go off grid gets greater and greater.”put
To put in solar in the rest of our cul de sac, they will have to cut down native oaks and redwood trees. That will not fly with the greenies.
They just finished solar on the last house on a nearby cul de sac.
The home only had 1200 square foot of roof for the new solar panels. The cost was $50,000 for the solar and more to come for the external and in home wiring.
I can’t see that being anything legal.
Sales tax based upon who you are - defined by communist-socialists.
So, if you don’t work it’s free!!!!!!!!!!!
How will the electric company know my income??? Is the IRS and/or the state FTB going to supply this data?
They didn’t
It was only white Male LANDOWNERS originally.
Race aside, the got the rest correct. Wymyn voting has overall been a disaster, because due to their inherent nature, they vote by emotions and not logic.
Even better, if you don’t work you get unemployment even if you’re not in the country legally! That bill’s in the Kali Senate right now.
that should accelerate the flow out of the state by wealthy high taxpayers.
The Ten Planks of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto
(and How Statists Implement Them)
Aptly describes Russia.
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