Speaker 1: California Democrat governor candidate Xavier Biserra wants to give you
Speaker 1: free electricity. Ah, but there's a catch, isn't there always
Speaker 1: Coming up? I'll tell you why. Xavier Bisera is a
Speaker 1: big old hypocrite. He doubled your utility bills and now
Speaker 1: wants you to feel as though he's giving you some relief. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got the receipts on why he's actually responsible for
Speaker 1: the high cost of living with your utility bills. Plus
Speaker 1: Gavin Newso cow towing to the utility companies trying to
Speaker 1: let him off the hook for wildland fire damage. All
Speaker 1: that and more coming up. This is like Marie Antoinette
Speaker 1: saying let them eat cake, basically mismanaging the country, mismanaging
Speaker 1: the state, causing a problem, and then saying let them
Speaker 1: eat cake. I'm Carl DeMaio, Chairman of Reform California, a
Speaker 1: California state representative, and let's talk about the cost of
Speaker 1: your electricity bill, shall we. Oh, it's the summertime and
Speaker 1: you are not You're not feeling good. Californians are getting
Speaker 1: electricity rates that are double They're betting price gouged electricity
Speaker 1: rates that are double the national average, and I've been
Speaker 1: beating the drum on this issue for the past several years.
Speaker 1: I posted this just a few weeks ago. California politicians
Speaker 1: are imposing a costly usage fine on you for using
Speaker 1: too much electricity during the heat wave. This is on
Speaker 1: top of rates that are already two times the national average.
Speaker 1: We've actually offered a plan to lower your utility costs,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to talk about that plan. The Republicans
Speaker 1: in Sacramento have offered that plan. But Xavier Bsera, running
Speaker 1: for governor, knows that people are pissed about the cost
Speaker 1: of their electricity. He knows it's the summertime, so it's
Speaker 1: on people's minds. So he's out there basically schillin' for votes.
Speaker 1: He's out there trying to divert attention from the fact
Speaker 1: that he's caused your rates to be so high. He
Speaker 1: wants you to see him as the problem solver, the savior,
Speaker 1: when in fact he is the one that caused the problem.
Speaker 1: Let me start out first with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a primer, and it's not going to take long as
Speaker 1: to why California's utility rates are two times the national average.
Speaker 1: It is not because of the greedy utility companies. Oh,
Speaker 1: let me get you really clear on the fact that
Speaker 1: I do not like big corporations, and there are problems
Speaker 1: with monopolies. But in California, you need to understand that
Speaker 1: the utility rates that you're charged for gas and electricity
Speaker 1: are actually not set by the utility company. They're set
Speaker 1: by the politicians through a state agency called the Public
Speaker 1: Utilities Commission p CPUC, the California your Public Utilities Commission.
Speaker 1: All of the members of the CPUC are left wing activists.
Speaker 1: They're not utility advocates, They're not energy experts, these are
Speaker 1: not consumer protection advocates. These are environmental left wing activists
Speaker 1: who believe in climate change and the world's going to
Speaker 1: end and what we need is the Green New Deal,
Speaker 1: and you should not be using water or electricity, you
Speaker 1: should be not having air conditioning. Some of them actually
Speaker 1: have said that they believe that air conditioning is a
Speaker 1: luxury that we can no longer afford. This is bat
Speaker 1: blank crazy philosophy, ideological extremism. So the Democrats appoint these
Speaker 1: guys and gals to this utility board. None of them
Speaker 1: have any utility experience, and what they do is, along
Speaker 1: with the politicians and Sacramento is they apply various mandates,
Speaker 1: costly mandates to our bills. So when you think about
Speaker 1: the cost of your utility bills being twice the national average,
Speaker 1: much of it is hidden taxes from the state of California.
Speaker 1: They're forcing charges onto your bill to pay for government programs.
Speaker 1: It's not the cost of electricity, it's not the cost
Speaker 1: of delivering electricity. It is the cost of a charge
Speaker 1: from government so that they can take your money and
Speaker 1: give it to someone else. They call them public purpose programs.
Speaker 1: The public purpose programs take money from your bill by
Speaker 1: increasing your kilawot hour charge for your electricity, and that
Speaker 1: money goes into a government fund controlled by the politicians,
Speaker 1: controlled by the CPUC commissioners, and then they then direct
Speaker 1: that money to be given out to other people. Who
Speaker 1: Do you know that on your utility bill you're paying
Speaker 1: higher electricity rates so that someone down the street doesn't
Speaker 1: have to pay their bill. Oh yeah, they say, when
Speaker 1: people can't pay their bills, well, we're just gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and wipe that bill clean, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: the lady down the street who has more money, she's
Speaker 1: gonna pay for that person. So a lot of people
Speaker 1: know about this program, so they just don't pay their bills.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm poor. I can't pay my bill because
Speaker 1: the PUC says you can't turn off someone's electricity. We'll
Speaker 1: just find a way to charge someone else to make
Speaker 1: the utility whole. Make sure the utility is protected. But
Speaker 1: of course you're not protected. The politicians get the money,
Speaker 1: the utilities get the money. You get stuck with the bill,
Speaker 1: and someone down the street decides to scam. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that people are not poor and sometimes down
Speaker 1: on their luck and they can't afford the utility bill.
Speaker 1: But the reason why they can't afford their utility bill
Speaker 1: is because the politicians have doubled the rates. Don't sit
Speaker 1: here and say, oh, I'm gonna double your rates, then
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to aff your utility bills.
Speaker 1: You know that was my problem. I cause that, But uh,
Speaker 1: you should like me, you should thank me, because what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is that I created the problem by
Speaker 1: doubling your rates through all these insane taxes, mandates, and fees.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to get someone else to pay for
Speaker 1: the problem I created. And so that's why you should
Speaker 1: thank me, and a lot of those voters do think.
Speaker 1: These politicians, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. You
Speaker 1: doubled my rates, and then you went down to that
Speaker 1: lady down the street and you price gouged her. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening, in the most simple way to describe it.
Speaker 1: A lot of these other mandates drive our utility costs
Speaker 1: as well. For example, we don't allow the utility company
Speaker 1: to buy the cheapest, most reliable energy. There's a war
Speaker 1: on carbon in this state. And there used to be
Speaker 1: a day when people said clean natural gas was a
Speaker 1: good thing. Not anymore. The leftists say, get rid of
Speaker 1: natural gas. It's carbon. We have to go to solar
Speaker 1: and wind. Here's a news flash. Solar and wind won't
Speaker 1: be able to power our homes in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night or when the wind stops blowing. It's only
Speaker 1: a fraction of our energy needs. And so we have
Speaker 1: got to import, at a very high cost, on a
Speaker 1: very bad environmental impact. We have to import carbon based
Speaker 1: electricity from other states. About a third of our electricity
Speaker 1: is imported from other states because we've shut down power plants.
Speaker 1: The last nuclear power plant is being shut down in
Speaker 1: a matter of several months, and so clean energy is
Speaker 1: off the check table. All they seem to want are
Speaker 1: wind and solar, which can't meet our needs, and so
Speaker 1: we pay higher costs. We lose electricity as we transport
Speaker 1: it across state lines, which is very wasteful. I used
Speaker 1: to be taught as an environmentalist you should waste not,
Speaker 1: want not not according to these left wing lunatics. And
Speaker 1: all of the costs are then imposed on you. All
Speaker 1: the utility companies and that are then hit with charges
Speaker 1: and fees by local governments and states governments on any
Speaker 1: project they work on. If they put up a utility
Speaker 1: poll boom, We're seeing government policies go and shake them
Speaker 1: down for as much money as possible. And they said, oh,
Speaker 1: we have to pay for the impacts. Pay for the impacts.
Speaker 1: You're not doing anything with the money, but going into
Speaker 1: the general fund. Utility company trenches a road, the local
Speaker 1: government will say, oh, we're going to pay you to
Speaker 1: repave the entire road. So they charge the utility company
Speaker 1: a bunch of money for repaving the entire road. And
Speaker 1: here's a news slash. They don't repave the road. Surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: you get a crappy road. Your utility bill is higher,
Speaker 1: and the utility company just shrugs its shoulders because, guess what,
Speaker 1: they're ultimately not paying the price because they get a
Speaker 1: guaranteed profit from the Public Utilities Commission. Because the politicians
Speaker 1: went to the utility companies and said, look, we're going
Speaker 1: to want to scam people get their money, and they
Speaker 1: won't know it's us taking the money. What we're going
Speaker 1: to do is we're going to impose all these mandates,
Speaker 1: hidden fees. We're going to impose all these charges on
Speaker 1: any projects that you work on as you're delivering electricity
Speaker 1: to those homes. As long as you be quiet about it,
Speaker 1: don't reveal that you're not the one charging these fees,
Speaker 1: it's government will still guarantee you profit. That is how
Speaker 1: the electricity rate case works in the state of California,
Speaker 1: where the utility company adds up all of its costs,
Speaker 1: many of which are driven by government bad government policies,
Speaker 1: green new Deal, greedy news deal, and then they submit
Speaker 1: that rate case to the politicians, who then rubber stamp
Speaker 1: it and guarantee them a profit margin. When you look
Speaker 1: at the profit margin of California utility companies, investor owned
Speaker 1: utilities they're actually not out of line with what other
Speaker 1: utilities earn, private investor owned utilities earn across the country.
Speaker 1: And so what my jaw goes down to the ground
Speaker 1: is they always like to go after boogeymen, and the
Speaker 1: politicians that create a problem like to blame others when
Speaker 1: it's fact, in fact, them creating the problems. They're the
Speaker 1: bad actors, but they want to shift the blame to others.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they grandstand and say these dirty,
Speaker 1: greedy utility companies, they're awful, they're price gouging you. And
Speaker 1: the utility companies are told keep your mouth shut, you
Speaker 1: speak out, we're going to go after you even harder.
Speaker 1: But as long as you allow us to make you
Speaker 1: the boogeyman, we'll still give you a profit, even though
Speaker 1: it's not as a margin, as a percentage more than
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. We're still going to tell
Speaker 1: the public that you're the greedy ones. Look, if we
Speaker 1: want lower utility costs, we've got to slash the mandates,
Speaker 1: slash the hidden taxes, and open up the market to
Speaker 1: more competition. You need all of that stuff, all of
Speaker 1: the above, but that's not what the politicians are doing.
Speaker 1: That's not what the utility companies are going along with.
Speaker 1: They're okay being the whipping boy being blamed as long
Speaker 1: as they're guaranteed profit. And so we have twice the
Speaker 1: rate for electricity cost in California. So into this picture.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I had to give you that primary, but
Speaker 1: you need to know what's set up our utility costs.
Speaker 1: And again this report from the Transparency Foundation, I really
Speaker 1: encourage you to at least take a look at it.
Speaker 1: It is lengthy, but it tells you what you need
Speaker 1: to know. Study exposes four point five billion in hidden
Speaker 1: state taxes, California utility bills, and climate change mandates. At
Speaker 1: even more goes on to explain why we have double
Speaker 1: the rates, which is basically summarized by what I just
Speaker 1: told you. So Xavier Psara knows this, so incomes Besarah
Speaker 1: to try to shift the blame. He says, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give Californians free electricity during a quote power hour.
Speaker 1: This is like Marie Antoinette saying let them eat cake.
Speaker 1: Basically mismanaging the country, mismanaging the state, causing a problem,
Speaker 1: and then saying let them eat cake. Remember, there was
Speaker 1: no cake for people to eat, but Marie Antoinette, like
Speaker 1: Xavier Besera, saying let them have free electricity. Now. His
Speaker 1: proposal says that during the middle of the day, when
Speaker 1: we have a surplus of energy, what we're going to
Speaker 1: do is give low income families free electricity for two hours.
Speaker 1: Besarah Here's politico announced on Tuesday an initiative he called
Speaker 1: his power Hour that would give lower income families daily
Speaker 1: two hours of free electricity to relieve pressure on the
Speaker 1: power grid. Who's paying for the free electricity low income
Speaker 1: favored families, You are, surprise, surprise, so you get to
Speaker 1: pay higher rates in order for them to get free electricity.
Speaker 1: Mind you, I think we should just cut the rates
Speaker 1: for everybody so everyone benefits poor people and you as well.
Speaker 1: But no, that's not what they're proposing. They want to
Speaker 1: keep the rates will high and then suck up to
Speaker 1: certain voting groups so that those voting groups feel beholden
Speaker 1: to them. Our sentist firefighter situation going on here. So
Speaker 1: during two hours each day where there's excess electricity, and
Speaker 1: this is typically during only a few portions of the
Speaker 1: year when there's a lot of sun or a lot
Speaker 1: of wind, So they're going to give them free electricity
Speaker 1: if they're the lucky ones, and then they're going to say,
Speaker 1: use all the electricity you can during these two free hours,
Speaker 1: because that way you're not using electricity during the other
Speaker 1: hours when what we have a deficit? So what does
Speaker 1: this tell us? But Sarah is admitting that electricity costs
Speaker 1: are too expensive and people can't afford them. And number two,
Speaker 1: we do not have electricity during other parts of the
Speaker 1: day to power our homes. Here it says in solar
Speaker 1: energy hubs, when the midday sun is shining but energy
Speaker 1: demand is relatively low, wholesale electriciy prices can dip into
Speaker 1: the negative. That means power companies have so much excess
Speaker 1: energy that they are willing to pay people to take
Speaker 1: energy off their hands. Is the mainstream media reporting the
Speaker 1: dysfunction in our energy policy in California. Of course not
Speaker 1: because they're all in the tank for the Green New Deal,
Speaker 1: But you need to know it is a real problem
Speaker 1: that we've created such a dysfunctional, warped energy policy in
Speaker 1: California that does not reflect market realities. Government has so
Speaker 1: perverted our energy system in California that it's so bad
Speaker 1: that not only do we pay double the rates but
Speaker 1: we have too much energy at certain points during the
Speaker 1: year where we can't even get it off our hands,
Speaker 1: we can't even put it into battery storage. And then
Speaker 1: during other parts, mostly most of the other times, we
Speaker 1: don't have enough energy, so we're importing it from other
Speaker 1: states at a much higher cost. Complete insanity. Here's an
Speaker 1: idea for you. Why don't we produce the energy we
Speaker 1: need when we need it in our own state at
Speaker 1: a lower cost. Oh, God forbid, we actually do that.
Speaker 1: That's what a reasonable, rational, responsible government would provide for.
Speaker 1: But that's not what we're doing in California. So he
Speaker 1: takes a bad situation and instead of fixing the situation
Speaker 1: as we've proposed and all of the above energy policy,
Speaker 1: slashing the mandates, what he has done is said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep the broken energy policy, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I'm giving you free energy because i know you're anger,
Speaker 1: you can't afford it, and I'm trying to manipulate when
Speaker 1: you use your energy. You know, in third world countries,
Speaker 1: in communist states, they just turn off the power. This
Speaker 1: is one step before that. They're basically saying, ah, we're
Speaker 1: going to give you free energy. We want you to
Speaker 1: use it during this time. We're trying to manipulate your
Speaker 1: behavior because our government can't actually meet your demand when
Speaker 1: you would like to use energy. So that's his plan,
Speaker 1: and he's going to get a lot of accolades for
Speaker 1: this because the headline. Look at the headline, Zaber Basera
Speaker 1: wants to give California it's free electricity for a power hour.
Speaker 1: What could be better than that? Oh, let the meat cake.
Speaker 1: But it is holistically irresponsible. It's a dysfunctional policy. On
Speaker 1: top of a dysfunctional policy. Here's another scam going on,
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom sucking up to the utility companies. Newsom makes
Speaker 1: last minute push to help California utilities facing wildfire bills.
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, he says that your utility companies that
Speaker 1: are found liable for fires when their utility polls, you know,
Speaker 1: spark of fire. And again, let me just be clear, Yes,
Speaker 1: utility companies have an element of responsibility on fires, but
Speaker 1: the main bad actor is government not cleaning up the
Speaker 1: wildland interface, the shrubs, the fuel load, the trees. We
Speaker 1: need to thin the fuel load, the brush, the dead brush,
Speaker 1: the dry brush. Government's not doing that. So you think
Speaker 1: about this, Yes, there is a spark to a fire,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's from the utility company, and yes they
Speaker 1: should be held responsible to a certain extent. But if
Speaker 1: the brush is surrounding that utility pole and could have
Speaker 1: been reduced, could have been managed so that we don't
Speaker 1: have a catastrophic fire, why are you just blaming the
Speaker 1: utility company and why are you forcing them just to
Speaker 1: pay for the costs. Why not force government to clean
Speaker 1: up its damn backyard. But of course not, we're not
Speaker 1: going to allow that because the environmental has to say, oh,
Speaker 1: we don't want to thin the forest. It's healthy, it's good. No,
Speaker 1: then the damn forest reduced the risk of wile end
Speaker 1: fire so that when a fire does occur from a
Speaker 1: utility pole, you can at least put it out quicker.
Speaker 1: But no, we're not doing that. Instead, there's been this
Speaker 1: dysfunctional problem on top of a dysfunctional policy on fire,
Speaker 1: where insurance companies are suing utility companies, and utility companies
Speaker 1: are saying, we don't have the money to pay for this,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to raise rates on our customers.
Speaker 1: We don't want to do that, So governor, can you
Speaker 1: just wipe away our liability, And here which boogeyman do
Speaker 1: you choose? Do you choose the hedge fund supported insurance
Speaker 1: companies or do you choose the investor owned utilities because
Speaker 1: Democrat politicians have made boogeyman out of both of these industries.
Speaker 1: So it's so interesting, you know, which boogieyman are you
Speaker 1: going to defend? Gavenue so well, I guess he's decided
Speaker 1: to choose the utility companies. But then, of course, as
Speaker 1: he says, I'm going to wipe away their liability with
Speaker 1: these last minute legislative bills that we need to limit
Speaker 1: their employee, their CEO compensation. He's just saying that because
Speaker 1: he's trying to suck up to them on one level,
Speaker 1: and he wants the public to think that he's really hard,
Speaker 1: hardcore on utility companies. Do you understand that this is
Speaker 1: all theater. But at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: have a dysfunctional electricity policy, we have a dysfunctional wildland
Speaker 1: fire policy. The politicians beat up on all these boogeymen,
Speaker 1: when in fact it's the politicians that are the real
Speaker 1: bad actors. Unfortunately, the liberal media in California falling for it,
Speaker 1: glowing coverage for Xavier Pisarah wanting to give a free
Speaker 1: electricity power hour to Californians. Kevin Newso holding those CEOs
Speaker 1: of utility companies accountable for not having a high salary
Speaker 1: but really secretly giving them a gift, oh because he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to clean up the brush for wildland fire.
Speaker 1: This is what's going on, but nobody wants to talk
Speaker 1: about it, and no one in Sacramato wants to fix it. Well,
Speaker 1: we want to fix it, California Republicans. Look in this election,
Speaker 1: this is all complicated stuff. But my hope is that
Speaker 1: it made sense to you, and we have to spread
Speaker 1: the word that people when they hear about free electricity
Speaker 1: or new some going up against the utility companies, that
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