SDG&E Rates to Increase for Some Residents..uh..Most Residents..The Facts Outspeak the Lies!

Holy electrons, Batman, here it is just a few days later and the gougers at San Diego Gouge and Extort are at it again! After a 12 percent increase in May, the greedy suckers are now looking at a 15 percent increase for ratepayers starting in September. Or, up to a 30 percent increase, according to their news release. What? That's right. They stated the increase would amount to about $15 more on a $100 bill and about $75 more on a $250 bill. That's 15 and 30 percent respectively, folks. Do you feel the shaft here?

The news article starts out with: SDG&E Rates to Increase for Some Residents (not according to the published rate chart! That shows increases for everyone!)

About 25 percent of San Diego Gas & Electric customers will see an increase in their bill beginning this fall (The article says 350,000 customers but the rate chart covers all customers. Is there a method where some customers will pay more for the same usage than others. Will you pay more than your next door neighbor? How can it be the rate increases only cover 25% of the customers yet the charts show it also covers the entire utility customer base increasing? Sounds like a bunch of crap talk to this writer!)

 

The news release is fraught with lies as they say "those customers live mainly in warmer inland areas of San Diego." Actually, when you read the rate sheet, everyones' rates are going up, and those living on the coast using 500 KWH actually will see a bigger increase than someone living inland using 500 KWH of electric. And people in the mountains and deserts will see the lowest increase of only about 2%. I always thought the deserts were warmer areas? Does SDG&E lie so much they forget we can and do read? We've come to distrust them so much we never take anything they say at face value.

Here's their Sept.1 increases:  http://www.sdge.com/residential/2013-rates

And, don't you know they blame it on the shutdown of San Onofre in the following statement:   The closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has “created an untimely reduction in our region’s energy resources," explained SDG&E in the letter.

Better yet, further showing the greed of this utility, is the following statement attributed to SDG&E: She (Stephanie Donovan) also said the bill impact is 30-50 percent greater than what it would have been if the General Rate Case had been approved last year.

The article is here for your perusal. I'd use to line the litter box after reading it but I think it might make my cat vomit:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/SDGE-Rates-to-Increase-for-Some-Residents-213016021.html

Once again, raising rates on a whim, unexplained blackouts and no protection from the California Public Utilities Commission. You do have to ask if someone isn't in the utilities pockets here? I'm not intimating they are, but you really do have to wonder how a regulatory agency lets this utility run wild with our money and just about every increase seems to be a slam dunk. Maybe the governor needs to dump the cronies on the CPUC and put some people with balls in there to stand up to the utilities and quit being lackeys to the power company.