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Now I need to figure out what a unit is from my gas company.  7 units was $23.76
Tina Kotek should do the same in Oregon. Natural Gas prices are out of control. >

I live in a huge old house because, oddly, it was what we could afford. Our utility bill was nearly a thousand dollars last month and it wasn't even that fucking cold. >

My bill in CA has gone from $100 to $200 to $400 a month in the last year or so. I don’t even run the heat that often and everything we own/use is updated energy efficient models of fridge and oven and range, etc. There’s zero reason it should have quadrupled for the same services being provided… >

On my PG&E bill this month, my charge for gas was almost triple the charge for the electricity, and the only thing I use gas for is my water heater. >

How DARE you take a hot shower! >

Also, I'm the only one who lives there so there's not even very much hot water being used. >

Honestly energy companies need more regulations maybe put a cap on their profit margins or something like that.
Because you don't need to investigate anything the reason is almost always the company fucking people over, which shouldn't be allowed for a company selling a necessity. >

Energy bills in CO have practically doubled in the past month for most people I’ve talked too, it’s insane. And then you see articles about the energy provider having record profits. Infuriating >

Californian.  December gas bill $70.  January bill $130.  Gas company projected our February bill to be $210. >

Oceanside CA. December $594. January $911. 
Not a typo. Insanity hardly describes this. Gargantuan greed. Grift taken to the next level. 
And no competition. The monopoly of SDGE. >

You got a pool or a indoor grow? >

SDGE charged $5 a therm. Our electricity is already the most expensive in the country on top of that. >

Even at $5/therm that's bonkers usage. >

To clarify those 2 months, we used heat a few hours a day (not anymore!). Gas stove not used daily. Dishwasher not used daily. I am not a shower freak - not a lot of hot water usage. Cold laundry water. The difference in therms between the 2 months was 3. >

Enron 2.0 >

Sdg&e sent out an email in January informing everyone their gas bill was going up by $120 a month
This was after national gas prices dropped
Monopolies are fucked y'all >

Another Enron type gouging thing huh? >

Came here to mention this. >

Its like Enron all over again. >

Capitalism...is no good when it only works for the wealthy >

That's pretty much the design and definition of capitalism. >

Investigate the price of eggs too while you are at it. >

Bird Flu and some weird shit going on with commercial feed. >

Even with the bird flu and the down stream effects, triple the price from a year ago has no basis in reality. This is pandemic profiteering. >

Have a friend who owns a chicken farm.  He still gets paid shit by Tyson and friends. >

He gets paid in shit? That's kinda gross and doesn't sound very profitable. >

Also what is Iron Mike and his friends doing at a chicken farm? >

Hmmm, I wonder if it has anything to do with home solar power being neutered? >

Good >

Don't you have CPUC?  I might be wrong, but you have a state commission on Utilities that regulates this stuff.  Does Natural Gas not fall under their purview? >

It does. I am more surprised that CPUC didn't  do a better control on prices. I thought there was a switch to control  a price jump post-Enron, but I am not sure. >

California should open up its own oil refineries and gas stations and set the prices themselves >

Have you learned nothing from history? Hell, we'd have to invade ourselves in the name of freedom and democracy if this ever happened. >

Red states already want to do that. The welfare states love to bite the hand that feeds them >

Perhaps he should look into who helps pay for his campaign finances - cause last I checked he received money from PGE >

Enron pt 2
Electric foogaloo >

The irony here is that Europe didn’t have an energy crisis because they didn’t end up using as much natural gas as they expected.  Its been warmer than they expected so their natural gas reserves are still pretty good.  The price rose in expectation of an event that didn’t happen and now is stubbornly not falling. Thats pure graft. >

We know why, the answer is greedy gas companies >

Illegal price gouging to help push a political narrative >

You think the execs will be paying for all those lawsuits? Investigate the CPUC while you're at it. They're just as culpable. >

This was some serious bad timing with inflation, etc. >

"fossil fuel gas," we have to stop going along with the green washed preferred industry branding. >

There is a historical basis for the calling it "natural gas" though. The reason is that when gas lighting first came to existence, it was almost exclusively manufactured as a by-product of coal. So in those days it was called "coal gas" or "syn gas" as in "synthetic gas". When the oil industry developed, it also became a big source of gas that came directly from the earth and thus is was distinguished from "synthetic gas" with the name "natural gas" which makes sense. It wasn't meant to be greenwashing at the time it came into popular use. 
If you want to re-brand it, a better approach would be to call it what it is "methane" or CH4. "Methane" would be getting to the point. >

While folks like you and I might understand the implications of methane in the atmosphere it's not as effective messaging-wise as just calling it what it is-- fossil fuel gas.
I hear your historical argument and while it's interesting it does not negate the heavily beneficial branding that "natural" represents for the industry that it does not deserve.
Rebranding it as "methane gas" will never take, but calling it  "fossil fuel gas" at this time when people are desperate for any edge in the broader campaign for green/renewable energy reinforcing that it is a fossil fuel is the better strategic option. >

Newsom is a lying hack.  It’s lip service to make him look like he actually cares about “the people”.  That guy is sooo bought by the big utilities.  He won’t do anything to damage his money train.
California, the “Go Green” state right?  He strangled the the small market Solar companies, the same companies that were coming up with low-income financing options that help people own rooftop solar and lessen their household expenses.  He did this to help enforce the utility oligarchy.
Wake up, they don’t care about you.  They are using you for power and greed.
The previous Governor Jerry Brown mandated all new homes must have solar.  Therefore, the developers are installing minimal, cheap, low quality products, rolling the purchase into the 30 yr. Mortgage and charging homeowners 2x+ what they could’ve purchased from a independent small business. >

Guess the check didn’t clear >

Ohhh his donors aren’t going to like that. Sempra has donated to him and every political party in the state. >

Time to get solar >

Wrong tactic.  Dump money into converting homes from gas to electric, and improve home insulation.
Watch the gas companies suddenly find ways to lower costs on their own. >

There’s no way to mix basic necessities and profit making without a conflict of interest >

It’s greed. There saved you millions. >

I’ve watched my price per therm TRIPLE in the 3 winters I’ve owned my house. $.29 in 2020, $.69  in 2021, $1.29 in 2022. 🥴