Howzabout I send the CA utilities (or maybe the legislature) $10? I'd make it more but I just opened my heating bill for the past month and it doubled from the month before.
I grew up a long time ago, on a planet far far away (planet New Hampshire, home of "Live Free or Die," and one of maybe a couple US states still with no sales or income tax). One result of growing up there was an awareness of the relationship between services and $$$$, since most services were provided at the local level. Lots of people have moved there because of the low taxes (except property). Then they find out hey, no garbage pickup! No free kindergarten! Etc, etc. Yep, those things cost money. Many Californians seem to have lost that perspective, and have substituted a righteous sense of entitlement that they can have it all, all the time, and keep putting off paying for it.
The simple answer is to assist California in providing a short term fix that doesn't pour sugar in the California gas tank and that gives California the time to structure a long term solution. It will likely cost California some serious money and will result in some adverse environmental impacts. That's life.
*I* agree with this. Problem is, the movers and shakers in CA are acting as if all the other players in this drama - other western states, the power generators, the federal government - should sacrifice their own interests to save CA's bacon. There is no sense of everybody working together to solve this to all the players' benefit as much as possible, only name-calling and no grasp of current financial and market reality. This whole thing is rapidly slipping from Sacramento's grip. |
