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PG&E charging for
extra vitality unfair
Years again I invested in photo voltaic panels. My Internet Vitality Metering, the annual photo voltaic adjustment from PG&E, is adverse $1,200 as a result of I produce far more than I take advantage of. With out this surplus manufacturing, PG&E would invoice me. They take the electrical energy my non-public assets produce (no consent crucial) and resell it to others.
So I’ve by no means owed an NEM — till now. Regardless of the large credit score steadiness in my account, I obtained nothing (they at all times merely cancel it) they usually billed me $100 — basically making me pay them to take my energy and resell it.
I’m 100% prepared to hold the batteries on the home and minimize the wire — through which case the surplus energy helps nobody — however I refuse to be charged for freely supporting the group.
So somebody at PG&E, please reply and provides me a purpose why I shouldn’t do that. In any other case, goodbye.
Stacy Spink
Castro Valley
Negotiating Ukraine
giveaway is nonsensical
Re: “It’s time to finish slaughter in Ukraine” (Web page A6, Aug. 23).
If I perceive Michael Dunlap’s logic, due to the prices and deaths/accidents of the struggle in Ukraine, the US shouldn’t oppose talks with the Russian authorities about conceding some elements of Ukraine to Russia and it’s time to negotiate. There’s a sure enchantment to that in the event you don’t look too intently.
I suppose if the Mexican military have been to invade Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California and trigger sufficient casualties and injury, the US and Mexico ought to negotiate how a lot U.S. territory turns into a part of Mexico and convert the nationalities of the folks residing there.
As for the local weather disaster purple flag, I don’t see the logic in assuming that numerous governments can’t do two issues without delay, resembling opposing Russian annexation of elements of Ukraine and dealing with local weather mitigation efforts on the identical time.
Phil Albert
Oakland
Lawyer may discuss
Trump into bother
Lawyer Alina Habba is a authorized spokesperson for Donald Trump. Her pronouncements might trigger Trump issues.
Trump’s legal professionals within the federal election interference trial have stated that they’ve a lot preparation that they need the trial postponed till 2026. On August 27, Habba fully undercut this place when she instructed Fox Information that Trump received’t want a lot prep time: “You don’t need to prep a lot if you’ve achieved nothing mistaken.”
Then a traditional Freudian slip on August 31 in a Newsmax interview: “Elected officers need to do what’s well-liked and generally now what’s proper. … That’s, I feel, why folks get nervous about Trump. He doesn’t do what’s well-liked or what’s proper. Or what I ought to say. I ought to say he solely does what’s proper, he doesn’t do what’s well-liked.”
I’m high-quality together with her gaffes, however no marvel she was faraway from his authorized protection crew in July.
Bob Benson
Lafayette
Union {dollars} drive
authorities development
Why do Democrats love ever larger authorities at each degree? Look no additional than labor unions.
The proportion of People who’re members of personal sector unions, in response to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now about 10%, which is the smallest on report. (Again within the Nineteen Fifties, the determine was nearly 35%.)
Is there any development in union membership? A bit bit at Starbucks, however primarily it’s within the public sector, resembling lecturers unions, the place about one in each three authorities staff now belong to a union, in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Public sector union members overwhelmingly assist Democrats.
And with many union bosses in a position to make political donations with or with out the consent of their members, no marvel that Democrats need the scale of presidency to develop and develop and develop.
Mike Heller
Walnut Creek
Scheme to steal
election is past perception
Former President Donald Trump continues to howl a couple of fraudulent election. With the November 2024 election coming quickly, our nation must trust within the election outcomes.
Republicans who proceed to make claims of huge voter fraud should clarify how this occurred on a nationwide scale ample to tip the election in favor of Trump or stand charged with sedition and the abuse of our democracy.
Robert Douglass
Fremont
Democrats comfortable
to ignore GOP voters
Relating to “GOP’s lasting embrace of Trump is disgusting” (Web page A6, Aug. 30), the author contends that the difficulty of the 2020 election being stolen is tearing our nation aside. It’s not, anymore than Hillary Clinton telling folks Trump stole the election in 2016.
