[snopercod]

PG&E San Francisco $70.51

The high price of electricity in SF couldn't have anything to do with their draconian emission limits (tightest in the nation), could it? Naaaaaahhhhhhh....

[Robert357]

In San Francisco, you now have a situation where you are getting closer and closer to the brink without anyone in the last four or five years planning what to do about it," said Carl Weinberg, a technology consultant who was head of PG&E's research and development program in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Making matters worse, the two aging power stations at Hunters Point and Potrero - made up of natural gas-burning and diesel-fired plants - release nitrogen oxides and other pollutants in excess of federal Clean Air Act limits taking effect in 2005.

You know very well that there is a connection between the air emission limits and the energy crisis in California. This article provides good documentation of that link that nobody in the press seems to want to focus attension upon.

Yes, the good folks in SF have messed things up pretty badly. As a former SF resident during the 70's, I am glad I got the heck out of there.