California's new energy plan forces the wealthy to pay more for electricity
March 13, 2024
"This would be the first state to charge people based on their income rather than what they actually just use," said Shon Hiatt, director of the USC Business of Energy Transition initiative.
"The problem here has been affordability. While California has focused almost completely on clean energy, it has disregarded reliability and affordability, and costs have continued to escalate. So, one of the (ways) they thought to address affordability (was), 'Let's just consider a tax and begin taxing people based on their income to address electricity rates.'"
Households earning $28,000-$69,000 would be charged an extra $20 to $34 per month. Those earning $69,000-$180,000 would pay $51 to $73 per month, and those earning more than $180,000 would pay a $85-to-$128 monthly surcharge.
"This electricity will be clean electricity," Vice President Harris said in January 2023 while dedicating a power line to carry green energy into California, "
and the energy delivered by these lines will not just be cleaner, it will also be cheaper."
A year earlier in Carlsbad, while dedicating a solar plant, President Bozo said,
"It's also now cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is from coal and oil, literally cheaper."
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