The problem with socialist electricity schemes is eventually you run out of other people to pay your rate.
American Experiment (4/17/23) article: "According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. The measure, which was drafted in response to a new California state law, would potentially save low-income families on their power bills while charging higher-earning families more. Under the plan, monthly bills would be broken into two parts: a fixed infrastructure charge, tiered by customer income level as required by the law, and an electricity use charge, which would vary based on consumption. Under the proposals, the monthly fixed charge for Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) customers would be as follows for a four-person household:
• Less than $28,000 per year: $15 fixed charge per month.
• Between $28,0000 and $69,000 per year: $30 fixed charge per month.
• Between $69,000 and $180,000 per year: $51 fixed charge per month.
• More than $180,000: $92 fixed charge per month.
The companies estimate that the electricity use charge, called a rate from hereafter, would initially fall by a third as more of the costs of providing electricity service are rolled into the fixed charges...California’s income-based fixed utility charges are a stunning departure from the classic tenets of utility rate-making, which stress that customer expenses should be just and reasonable and based on the cost of providing the service to that customer."
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