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Hilarious.

"they want to further reduce the incremental energy price by implementing a fixed monthly charge on each customer, aimed at covering some of the costs of retail distribution, metering and billing."

That's straight out of the 1975 hippie classic "Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston" - and is one of the Casus belli California cited when seceding from the union in that book.

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Thanks for sharing this book...and the Latin!

Links for both below if anyone else is interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli

I keep getting notes from SoCal Edison with each bill wanting to tack on fees for every little thing. New distribution lines, cleaning up their nuclear mess at San Onofre. In other businesses those are costs of doing business and are factored into their balance sheet rather than getting directly passed on to the customer.

Just so long as you don't start setting up artillery on the sierra nevadas.

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