Elias: Beware yet another customer-paid utility bailout by state Legislature
Anytime California's three biggest privately-owned electric companies tell you they want to change their pricing structure just for your good, hold...
Anytime California's three biggest privately-owned electric companies tell you they want to change their pricing structure just for your good, hold onto your wallet. These companies — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – did exponentially more physical damage to this state and its people over the last decade than any other industry and never paid much for their misdeeds. One – PG&E – has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and criminal negligence for its role in both wildfires and a huge natural gas pipeline explosion, without a single employee ever serving so much as a day in prison for causing the loss of well over 200 lives and many hundreds of homes and other businesses.