Posted on 07/29/2024 5:35:38 AM PDT by lowbridge
A Fresno small restaurant owner says he has had enough after his PG&E bill was nearly double his rent.
Manuel Perales, the owner of Yosemite Falls Cafe says his June utility bill was nearly $21,000. His rent? $10,000.
“How do you pay that bill?" he said.
He says it doesn't make sense to receive that astronomical bill even during the hottest months of the year.
He's not the only one outraged with the increase of PG&E bills.
He shares that one of his servers told him her monthly bill was $1,000.
"This is a young lady with two kids. She goes, you know, we can't afford that," he said.
Daisy Saldana, a server at Yosemite Falls Cafe says, her bill last month was around $700.
"It has been hot but that is a little too extreme, $700," she said.
For May, her bill was at $400.
Luckily, she says she splits it with three roommates, or else it would be her whole paycheck going towards the electricity bill.
For Yosemite Falls Customers, it's the same story.
Dale Manasco said, "It's ridiculously high and especially when you're on a set income. I don't have the best-paying job and what I make, seems like it's going to the PG&E bill."
Other customers who overheard a FOX26 News crew speaking to Perales say, they couldn't believe his utility bill was double his rent to keep his business running.
That, on top of inflation and minimum wage recently going up.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmph.com ...
Easy peasy! /s
Running your air conditioner in hot weather causes climate change. Of course you should pay outrageous sums of money. Just switch it off, die and we can sequester your carbon.
For example, in the June power bill the per kWh rate was 12.6207¢/kWh (for the first 1,000 kWh). However, the fuel surcharge was 03.6212¢/kWh. Between that and the 4% state tax, we paid 16.89¢/kWh (on top of the flat monthly fees, which total $15.60/month).
So it hurts power customers even in Alabama when Obama's EPA forced us to close some coal plants and replace them with "clean burning" natural gas fueled power, then Biden issued EO's making it harder to drill for natural gas (making the price of natural gas go up, which made power rates go up too). Basically, the Dims under Biden are punishing us for using the natural gas that Obama forced us to switch to. Bull crap like that is why I have a bunch of solar.
Do you shop for your electric supplier via the PA Power Switch program? I save hundreds of dollars by doing so. If you're unfamiliar with PA Power Switch, reply or mail me and I'll share the PA Power Switch the filters/options I use for best price.
The Louiswu ~ "Paying for folks that don’t carry insurance"
Don't have insurance, don't or barely speak English, can't read road signs, unfamiliar with the traffic laws and customs, from cultures that do every thing they can to avoid interacting with police, lest they be beaten or shaken down (i.e. hit and split)...need I go on?
This is all pretty stupid because they don’t tell you the kWh used. Then the rest of us can relate it to something like our home usage.
I use about 500 kWh per month.
My power comes from a Democrat run Hawaii company that is nearly the most expensive per kWh in the entire world.
(55 to 85 cents per kWh).
Don’t cry me a river without more facts and data!
when it’s all said and done, all that will be left is Uber and Amazon.
Sorry Manuel. It’s a Cauliphonya thing. Send the bill to Gruesome Newsom. Or better yet, send it to the new president Chiquita Harris the Banana Lady.
Hey Californians because you live in California and vote for democrats soon you will be paying even more ( not less) and you’ll be tolerating brownouts on top of it. These are the benefits of being good and woke and democrat.
If he declassified the business as a college the servers can get tuition reimbursement.
It’s the green RAW deal.
I find this difficult to believe, but then again we quite gratefully do not live in communist paradise.
This is either a billing error or PG&E is trying to compensate for losses elsewhere. If they are stuck with unproductive windmill and solar panel adventures, then that’s the likely cause. Also they have a ton of freeloaders out there not paying their bills.
Regardless of actual cause, Kalifornia’s loony left is the root cause. And they are exporting this to the rest of the nation and have been since the 60’s.
This all can not be due to incompetence in our elected leaders, it has to be by design.
It is not going to get better until Democrats (and environmentalist) are no longer in charge.
“The sooner they are 100% “green” the sooner their prayers will be answered.”
If WEF has their way, it will be Soylent Green.
HE NEEDS TO CHALLENGE THIS & get it straight...
AND-— IT IS DELIBERATE AND THEY LAUGH ABOUT IT
10 years ago, my UNINSURED motorist coverage was about 5% of my premium.
NOW== 39%
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