Editorial: High electric bills threaten California's clean future. This plan would help

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : This payment system may have been appropriate decades ago as a way to encourage energy conservation, but it's increasingly in conflict with policies pushing residents to electrify their homes and vehicles.
51% : That's a problem because it makes it harder for people to afford switching from fossil fuels to clean electric cars and appliances that are essential to combating climate change.
47% : Otherwise, the critical resource that the future of our planet and economy rests on will keep growing less affordable and undermine California's climate policies.
42% : To be clear, this new billing plan doesn't solve the problem of rising electric bills, and state regulators and lawmakers need to get serious about pushing back against constant rate increase requests and holding these monopolies accountable for keeping costs low.

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