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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1437527)	2/5/2024 2:25:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By Eric Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

"Is that why electricity in California should cost 2-4X as much as the rest of the nation?" You are paying for PGE's fires. Why California Electricity Bills Are So High and What You Can Do About It (solarreviews.com) The reasons for these high rates of increase are numerous. Two of the most important are major upticks in the cost of natural gas used by power plants and rising costs associated with the upkeep of the electric grid. The cost to run the grid has skyrocketed as utilities strengthen their infrastructure to prevent or repair damage from wind storms and wildfires. Sadly, some California utilities have been allowed to pass the costs of those wildfires onto ratepayers. == "Is that why we should get rid of all of our existing cars, even the hybrids, and drive around EVs in just 10 years?" If you haven't figured out by now that nobody has to do that, you're dumber than I give you credit for. == "Is that why we should be sipping our cinnamon dulce suck your dick sideways nonfat frappucinos with paper straws that hardly stay in one piece the moment they contact anything liquid?" Be a man,and drink without a straw. -- "Is that why we should keep remembering to bring our reusable bags into grocery stores and refrain from using the disposable plastic bags?" That's not very hard; I've been doing it for about 20 years. This is why we are doing it... -- "So yeah, I repeat: Tell the environ-mentalists to go F themselves." Go F yourself.