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Related: About this forumHey San Diego
Are you as sick as I am about this?
This "public/private partnership" is working great for the private sector but not us.
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Hey San Diego (Original Post)
SHRED
Aug 2018
OP
Turbineguy
(37,317 posts)1. San Diego had an excellent and reliable
publicly owner power system.
Then they sold it to Enron.
Remember them?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. I remember our rates being much lower
And not long ago relatively speaking.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)4. I remember Dick Cheney's FERC deregulation of the market...a scam to transfer California's
wealth to Texas for not one thing in return.
Turbineguy
(37,317 posts)5. Enron looted
the asset by postponing maintenance and having to shut down power plants causing rolling blackouts.
awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)3. Those rates are insane
I'd be paying around $715 a month there.
and trump just slapped a big ol tariff on solar panels... most of which are now made in china
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)7. Don't even get me started on this!