utilities – California Globe

Fires, Floods, and Fools: Rhetoric vs. Disaster

January 16, 2025 3:30 amJanuary 16, 2025 3:31 am

Back in the 1990’s, I penned my first in a series of articles dealing with the subject matter of “Fires, Floods, and Fools,” a never-ending cycle in California. Having lived through the 1969 flood and countless fires, it was a...

Climate Hustlers & Media use Scare Tactics to Sell Green Agenda

July 17, 2023 10:09 amJuly 19, 2023 1:48 pm

“It’s not your imagination: Sacramento is getting hotter, data shows.” the Sacramento Bee headline cautioned Friday. They also say, “The six warmest years in California have all happened in the past decade, according to NOAA.” Is this just a little...

Tax Fighter Warns ‘Big Problems for California’s Income-Based Utility Rates’

April 24, 2023 6:55 amApril 24, 2023 7:03 am

Last week the Globe reported that Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric had just filed a proposal to create income-based utility billing. Currently, utility bills are based on electricity and gas consumption. The...

California Going Full Commie: ‘Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition’

April 16, 2023 2:30 amApril 17, 2023 7:37 pm

Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric filed a proposal on Thursday that would install a fixed-rate electric bill system for those under the three largest power companies in the state, the Globe reported....

California Can’t Power the State but is Forging Ahead with Electric Truck Mandate

April 5, 2023 3:47 pmApril 5, 2023 3:47 pm

California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers and waterways such as the San Joaquin River Delta and hydroelectric dams; the Pacific coastline; 85 million...

The Abundance Choice, Part 2: The Problems With Indoor Water Rationing

May 12, 2022 2:45 amMay 26, 2022 12:13 pm

Perhaps the biggest example of misguided water policy in California are the escalating restrictions on indoor water consumption. As will be seen, the savings these restrictions amount to are trivial in the context of California’s total water consumption, yet are...

Californians Can Weigh In on PG&E’s 22% Proposed Rate Hike with Calif. Public Utilities Commission

March 11, 2022 6:48 am

With double-digit inflation, mega-gas prices in California, high food costs, high housing costs, and used cars selling for new car prices, gird your loins: Pacific Gas and Electric is proposing a 22 percent rate hike. PG&E electricity customers were recently...