PG & E agrees local rates are unfair

[The Straight Story]

PG & E agrees local rates are unfair

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power bills in Kern County are unfair, company spokesman Ken Cooper told the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.

Customers here pay higher costs for power to keep bills low in the San Francisco Bay area and other temperate parts of the company’s territory.

“Kern County customers are being impacted with high costs and are subsidizing other areas of the state,” Cooper said.

Supervisors responded by calling for an advisory ballot measure in June that will ask Kern County voters if they want the county to replace PG&E with a publically owned utility district.

The blunt acknowledgment that PG&E rates are unfair left many observers stunned.

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