Of course, if we simply get rid of PG&E power and replace it with community funded local solar, wind power, and other renewables (which deliver free electricity for decades after their up front costs are paid) our bills can actually start going down, instead of up. And at the same time we will be helping to reverse the climate crisis. See http://ourcitysf.org/campaigns/communitychoice.html

Also note that this idea PG&E is pushing that its price increases are lower than the rise in the cost of living, is an outrageous deception. Why? Because energy prices are factored -in- to the rise in the cost of living. So as energy prices go up they push up the overall cost of living; meaning that the rising cost of living will almost always exceed energy price rises.

This reality becomes especially clear when we remember that when energy prices rise, the cost of producing -all- consumer products, services, and agricultural produce goes up, creating a vicious inflationary multiplier effect.

So in the current deep recession and environmental crisis, we can no longer afford PG&E...