Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> > We have always encouraged alternative sources here and have several
> > wind farms and at least one large scale geothermal plant. We have
> > high gas taxes, but I think that a 250% tax would be a little silly. A
> > 40% rate increase was imposed the other day, I'll be paying about
> > .17/Kwho. What are you paying again? Maybe we should charge a
> > premium for states with the highest per capita use.
>
> I'm not getting my electricity from the same outfit that Dan M. is, but my
> most recent electricity bill had a breakdown thusly:
>
> First 500 KWH @ 0.0355
> Additional KWH @ 0.0602
> Secondary Fuel Adjustment @ 0.02682
> (this was for ALL KWH)
>
> So I end up paying $31.16 for the first 500 KWH, and $0.08702 for each
> additional KWH. This isn't even half of what you're paying. (There's
> also a $6.00 customer charge, but that's not dependent on how much
> electricity I use, just that I get to use it.)
Our baseline is (or was before the new increases) 367.3 Kwh. We have a bunch
of extra charges as well.
>
> BTW, my husband has been reading everything that comes into the house
> regarding the electricity situation in California and in Texas (he's
> working for a California company, and when he goes out to meet with
> co-workers, he wants to have an understanding of what's going on with the
> power problems before he shows up), and he told me that the Texas grid is
> isolated from the rest of the US. Something about not wanting federal
> regulation messing things up causing the state to be careful about not
> giving the feds a reason to get involved in the first place. Given that,
> I don't know that any outside power could enforce having people and
> businesses in Texas pay more for electricity based on per-capita
> consumption or anything.
That wasn't really a serious suggestion, sorry if I made it sound like one.
>
> As far as gasoline prices in California go -- I saw a montage of
> California gas station price boards on a national newscast earlier this
> week, and man, I'm sorry. I'm not going to bitch about gasoline prices
> here anytime soon. (The best I saw had a Californian paying $0.60 more
> than me for a gallon of basic unleaded.)
>
I think the cheapest you can get unleaded here is ~$1.90.
Doug
