San Diego electric company proposes billing based on income instead of usage

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Anonymous wrote:I read it.

The issue is this equity stuff will spill over into everyday life.

Yes, It seems the bills are written to charge more for people at higher income levels. So basically the richer people are subsidizing the lower income people. Kinda like taxes are now where Rucker people pay more income taxes. But this is a utility. So is the future that the more people earn, the more they will have to pay for electricity, gas, heat, tolls. Where does this end. So what’s the point of working hard and being successful if you have to pay more for it as an equity punishment.

Maybe Blacks and Native Americans should not have to pay at al land let all the white people pay for everything ???

Right now, the poor are actually subsidizing the rich in California. Rich people are more likely to have solar panels on their houses. Thanks to net metering, they probably pay very little to heat and cool their gigantic homes and power their Teslas. However, the cost to deliver power to those houses is the same - maybe even more than an apartment building because lines have to be run and maintained to each SFH compared to an apartment block.

You may be thinking that solar houses use less power. Well, unless they have a battery tower or only use power when the sun is shining, they are not. They are drawing from the grid every day when the sun goes down or when it rains. In fact, when you dispense with the fallacy that is net metering, they are probably using at least as much power and or probably more. But they aren’t paying for their fair share of the infrastructure used to deliver it.