[quote=livinincali][quote=bearishgurl]
Why should we pay higher rates so those “super-users” in buried-cable lizardland can be “comfortable” under their central A/C? What exactly is it that I’ll be getting for my money if my utility bill happens to double under a two-tiered rate system (to make it more “fair” for super-users, lol)?[/quote]
Their bills will continue to be much higher than yours. A lot of people will see their bill go up somewhat a few people will see their bill go down significantly. If your neighbor uses twice as much power as you does he deserved to be billed 4 times as much when he’s in your same shoes when it comes to infrastructure. Go look at this document where you can see that rates for tier 3 and 4 are more than double 1 and 2. The future proposal shrinks that down to about 25% and there still is a heavy penalty for super users.
Let’s just be honest with ourselves that low energy users were getting a pretty good deal. I haven’t really seen my bill go up much at all in the past 7 years using tier 2 or below power 99% of the time.[/quote]
I downloaded the recent SDG&E bill insert, livinincali. I don’t get paper bills so I haven’t seen this yet. I’ll take a closer look at it later tonight. Thanks for the link.
