Utilities in Ca!

[metaladdict]

So our family has 3 air conditioners in the rooms and microwave dishwasher,etc.
We don't have our P.G and E care discount now and this month's bill is $440.00 %$&^#@*&#$%*^$^>_=÷$!!!
I'm gonna remove those a/c units and maybe disconnect the little fridge in the garage!!!
Stay tuned next month...

 

[vmc1161]

So our family has 3 air conditioners in the rooms and microwave dishwasher,etc.
We don't have our P.G and E care discount now and this month's bill is $440.00 %$&^#@*&#$%*^$^>_=÷$!!!
I'm gonna remove those a/c units and maybe disconnect the little fridge in the garage!!!
Stay tuned next month...

Well, that sucks, unfortunately, it will probably be spreading east. They want us all to be poor and dependent on big brother.

 

[KingTotsalot]

Electric utility rates are regulated by each states utility commission, part of your state government. Unfortunately you live in California, which, due to politics, has been pushing electric cars, etc., restricting oil & gas exploration in this off shore waters for years, and generally enforcing various regulations that cause the cost of utilities and fuels to rise….have a green leaning government and pay more! The only thought is that if I lived there and could retire, I would be outta there and never look back. Presently both Texas and Florida have no state income tax, and I dare say cheaper utility costs. You did not allow nuclear power, so now the citizens of CA are paying the price! This is just the history, imho, that brought the situation to where it is now. Moderator may strike my comments if they think they are too political to be in this forum. I do not think so. Facts are facts.

 

[metaladdict]

Electric utility rates are regulated by each states utility commission, part of your state government. Unfortunately you live in California, which, due to politics, has been pushing electric cars, etc., restricting oil & gas exploration in this off shore waters for years, and generally enforcing various regulations that cause the cost of utilities and fuels to rise….have a green leaning government and pay more! The only thought is that if I lived there and could retire, I would be outta there and never look back. Presently both Texas and Florida have no state income tax, and I dare say cheaper utility costs. You did not allow nuclear power, so now the citizens of CA are paying the price! This is just the history, imho, that brought the situation to where it is now. Moderator may strike my comments if they think they are too political to be in this forum. I do not think so. Facts are facts.

I agree, just need to find a state that's not a desert,no tornados/ hurricanes/ sink holes, low property tax, income tax, low crime rate.

 

[GroundSweeper]

Holy carp that’s a huge electric bill Metal

No AC here and I pay around $170-180 lately. Furnace use in winter will probably take me to $230.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Electric utility rates are regulated by each states utility commission, part of your state government. Unfortunately you live in California, which, due to politics, has been pushing electric cars, etc., restricting oil & gas exploration in this off shore waters for years, and generally enforcing various regulations that cause the cost of utilities and fuels to rise….have a green leaning government and pay more! The only thought is that if I lived there and could retire, I would be outta there and never look back. Presently both Texas and Florida have no state income tax, and I dare say cheaper utility costs. You did not allow nuclear power, so now the citizens of CA are paying the price! This is just the history, imho, that brought the situation to where it is now. Moderator may strike my comments if they think they are too political to be in this forum. I do not think so. Facts are facts.

To each his own KT.

First a disclosure on my part. I am a retired PG&E employee. The company is not perfect and has changed a lot since I retired in 2007.

California does have nuclear power plants. PG&E’s Diablo Canyon facility was set to close but has gotten a new lease on life!

My state has it’s ”Faults” but it’s home.

 

[vmc1161]

I agree, just need to find a state that's not a desert,no tornados/ hurricanes/ sink holes, low property tax, income tax, low crime rate.

That state is called euphoria, I unfortunately lost the directions to get there. If you should get there please send me the address. And then post the wrong address for the other knuckleheads here.

 

[KingTotsalot]

To each his own KT.

First a disclosure on my part. I am a retired PG&E employee. The company is not perfect and has changed a lot since I retired in 2007.

California does have nuclear power plants. PG&E’s Diablo Canyon facility was set to close but has gotten a new lease on life!

My state has it’s ”Faults” but it’s home.

Thanks for your input, SeaBeeRon! That is good news about the Diablo Canyon facility.

And yep, there’s no perfect place to live, so one learns to get by with whatever idiocincracies ar present, be it tornados, brushfires, floods, hurricanes, heavy snow, high humidity and heat, earthquakes, and do what can be done to mitigate the threats. KT lives in an area of changeable weather, so we have tornado threats in the spring and fall, heavy rains at times causing flash flooding, ice storms causing power outages and impassable roads in the late winter, high heat and humidity in the summer, etc. Yet people in this area feel it is a great place to live, mostly because they like the change of seasons….and in the spring and fall the weather is generally marvelous! And yes, to each his own! KT loves to visit the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, the upper East Coast, and so forth, but a couple of weeks of sightseeing and the Royal Family are always ready to come back to the Royal Castle! Ha ha.

 

[achaios]

VA has earthquakes once every hundred years (last big one was in 2011), occasional tornados, hurricanes/tropical storms not very often, no sinkholes to speak of, OK state income tax, and in the more rural counties, OK property tax. Unfortunately, I live in Unfairtax county, which has a board of stupidvisors which love to tax and spend. They just (with two exceptions, one democrat and the lone republican) voted themselves a colossal raise.

So, VA may meet your requirements outside of the cities, Arlington County, Fairfax County, and some of the more developed areas. However, if you are planning on working someplace, the lower tax areas offer less employment opportunities.

Anything beats CA, though...

--Tom