By Chronicle readers : sfchronicle – excerpt

Regarding “PG&E bills to soar nearly $400 a year in 2024 for millions of California households” (California, SFChronicle.com, Nov. 17): Again the California Public Utilities Commission sides with the investor-owned utilities not the citizens of the state or of the blue planet.

We can’t afford it anymore. People are struggling to pay their utility bills, and PG&E got another big rate increase estimated to average about $400 per year and a reduction in payments to owners of rooftop solar for the second time this year, supposedly to reverse the “unfair subsidies.”

Rather than incentivize property owners to take load off the grid we have, once again, incentivized PG&E to build more power plants.

Why does our governor and presidential hopeful continue to side with the corporations instead of the citizens?

Aren’t we really supposed to be trying to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the state’s stated goal, and decrease the impact that humans have on our beautiful blue planet?…(more)

This is one of many letters that deride the Governor-appointed CPUC for raising energy costs while punishing people for installing rooftop solar systems to relieve the pressure on the grid. Not only is PG&E forcing private citizens to pay more, they are gauging the SFMTA that must rely on them to expand their electric fleet. Now the state has put our public transportation system that they normally support in a bind. They are passing unfunded mandates on public transit systems. Read the details here: Muni’s Dream of An Electric Fleet of SF Buses Suddenly Looks Much More Like the Present

Time for new people to represent us in Sacramento. Ask your most responsible honest local politicians to run for office. Ignore the negative campaigns against them.