Corporate Capture in California
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Corporate Capture in California
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#3Corporate capture in California is WAY bigger than just the DMV.
Just do some scroogling on CPUC (California Public Utility Commision) and their treatment of net metering and other utility reforms.
California is a very rich state, and if you want to find corruption, just follow the money...
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#4"Despite recurring safety problems, these companies had no problems receiving these permits, which critics have condemned."
So the expectation is that there be no safety problems, because taxis never have safety problems?
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#5" hindered the path of an ambulance carrying a man who was struck by a vehicle"
Not to mention, almost never to mention, the empty police car that was also blocking the way.
It took both to kill that man
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#6Corporate capture in California is WAY bigger than just the DMV. Just do some scroogling on CPUC (California Public Utility Commision) and their treatment of net metering and other utility reforms. California is a very rich state, and if you want to find corruption, just follow the money...
I'm curious with what you are referring to with respect to CPUC and their net metering decision. I googled it and saw that they recently went away from net metering.
Austin, TX is one of the first locales (if not the first) that used a "Value of Solar" metric instead of net metering. I may hate this from a personal perspective as someone who wants to put up solar panels on my house, but I also acknowledge that net metering fundamentally doesn't make sense and is unfair.
That is, a utility can only survive of it buys electricity at wholesale rates and sells it at retail rates. Net metering is essentially having the utility buy power at retail rates. There are tons of costs with maintaining the grid beyond just the cost of power, and it wouldn't make sense for a customer to get the benefit of that grid hookup and pay nothing if they're "net 0".
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#7"Despite recurring safety problems, these companies had no problems receiving these permits, which critics have condemned." So the expectation is that there be no safety problems, because taxis never have safety problems?
Your quote implies neither of those things.
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#8This is a national issue. No point singling out California for serving the money like everyone else.
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#9I’m sick of this dumb anti-SDC narrative that all the local news media is pushing. I get it, big tech bad, change scary, controversy good for clicks and ad impressions. I’ve used them like 10 times now and know several other people actively using them in SF, and I’ve coexisted with them for years as a pedestrian throughout the Bay Area, and have had nothing but positive experiences with them.
Honestly fuck these journalists, this is life saving technology and if they hold us back because they can’t bully local government into making it easier for them to bully SDC, they have blood on their hands.
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#10Corporate capture in California is WAY bigger than just the DMV. Just do some scroogling on CPUC (California Public Utility Commision) and their treatment of net metering and other utility reforms. California is a very rich state, and if you want to find corruption, just follow the money...
I'm curious with what you are referring to with respect to CPUC and their net metering decision. I googled it and saw that they recently went away from net metering. Austin, TX is one of the first locales (if not the first) that used a "Value of Solar" metric instead of net metering. I may hate this from a personal perspective as someone who wants to put up solar panels on my house, but I also acknowledge that net me…
"a utility can only survive of it buys electricity at wholesale rates and sells it at retail rates."
That is only true if the utility invests in the generation equipment. Individuals are paying 100% of the capital cost of solar generation equipment, which the utility uses locally at time of generation at basically no incremental cost. The utilities very much benefit from this at nearly retail rates (less the incremental maintenance costs of the local grid.) Yes, there should be some user fee for connecting to the grid, but it is not anywhere near the full difference between retail and wholesale energy costs...