California regulators are working on a ratemaking proceeding that would add fixed monthly charges to utility bills, which increase based on income levels. Proposals under consideration affix charges as high as $128 per month, regardless of how much electricity is used at the home.
The proposed charge is justified by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) based on claims that it would alleviate bill pressure on California’s low-income residents, but this reasoning has not stood up to scrutiny in the eyes of 18 California Congressional members.
“A single parent with one child living in a small apartment in the expensive San Diego area earning just $40,000 per year would be forced to pay a new fixed charge of $73 each month—regardless of how much they try to reduce their energy usage,” warned the coalition of Congressional members in a letter to CPUC commissioner Reynolds.
Economist, rate design expert, and California resident Ahmad Faruqui modeled that the Income Graduated Fixed Charge (IGFC) not only does not help low-income residents with savings, but that it would disproportionately harm customers with low electric bills.
Faruqui said the charge both creates a disincentive for conserving energy at home and worsens the value of rooftop solar customers, significantly damaging the return on investment.
“We are concerned that imposing a high fixed charge could make it substantially more difficult for families to realize cost savings from electrifying their homes, improving their energy efficiency, or installing distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar,” said the letter from the state Representatives.
The proposed decision is unanimously supported by the state’s large investor-owned utilities, which stand to profit from an energy mix that includes less customer-sited solar and less electricity conservation. The state has goals of energy affordability, conservation, lowered emissions, and climate resiliency, all of which can be supported by distributed solar, but this proposed decision works in direct contrast to those goals, said the Congressional members.
“Even $33 per month would distinguish California as having a monthly fixed charge three times the national average. And there is little to stop utilities from continuing to increase electric rates once they secure the highest fixed charges in the country,” said the letter to the CPUC.
California’s residents have taken a beating from investor-owned utility companies and the CPUC over the past year. Major utility PG&E passed a 13% hike to electricity rates, adding on to what are already among the highest in the nation.
The state passed NEM 3.0, a cut to solar export compensation which sunk the state’s once-thriving rooftop solar market, leading to nearly 20,000 jobs lost and numerous solar installer bankruptcies.
CPUC then moved to shut down the emergent community solar market, which offered a pathway for renters and those with unsuitable rooftops for solar to save on electricity bills. Proponents of community solar legislation say it would enable bill savings of about $300 per year, with total ratepayer savings reaching $9 billion.
As for the income-graduated fixed charge, California Representatives are calling for thorough analysis that extends beyond investor-owned utilities’ internal analysis on the impacts on Californian families.
“We believe that a policy change of this magnitude requires thorough vetting and analysis. We urge the CPUC to ensure that any proposal it ultimately pursues neither inadvertently and disproportionately increases energy costs for low- and middle-income California families, nor slows down our efforts to address climate change through energy efficiency, conservation, or distributed energy resources,” said Congressional members Mike Levin and Mike Thompson in a joint letter to the CPUC.
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Who are these people that has so much power to single handedly alter the entire landscape of the utilities in the state. They are not elected bodies! Most likely they are getting paid by the for profit utilities. They should ask be fired and a new team created. They have been making one bad decisions after the other. What are the legislators looking at? Shame on this state!
As a widow on a fixed income this is a DUMB and STUPID idea. How am I and anyone else who has to budget and do without supposed to justify a additional charge just to make the utility companies richer. Maybe they should figure out how to prevent fires and maintain their lines.
Roll back all their rates 10 +yrs +…if they can’t make it …get outa the business..cause the public can’t afford them either
Other posters forgot to mention earthquakes and crime. And yet when you ask people why they want to live in CA they will robotically answer, “The weather”. As if that really compensates for all the negatives.
I think I will add more solar panels than add two to three batteries and just disconnect from the grid and tell the power company and governor to kiss my ass
Exactly people better start paying attention or it’s gonna get even worse
The overall cost of living in CA is completely out of control. Just consider the following inflated costs.
Car registration
Gasoline
Auto and home insurance
Fast food
Gas tax
State income tax
And yet we have the most people living in poverty and highest homeless population.
And our deficit is over $70 billion but we are giving illegal aliens free Healthcare.
CA is walking the green mile
CPUC: Let them eat cake
Fast food? Fast food is a want not a need. Like saying skittles, pepsi, and snickers gone up in price. LoL
Hi Mike,
I agree 100 %. My wife and I are retired and 2 years ago down sized to a mobile home in San Jacinto, which can get up to 115 in the summer. So we were one of first homeowners to get solar. The company installed them at no cost and we pay a flat rate each month. It saves us over a 1000 a year. It really passes me off to hear that the utility commission is using our monthly rate again. Its time to investigate the members and their families for kick backs and corruption.
Reminder that California going from a huge $100 billion surplus to $75 deficit is due to the state being entirely reliant on income taxes (income being highly variable, and the SPAC days of lots of investor money being over), and not planning for bad years by putting a surplus into a savings for bad years, results in CA having these issues.
Newsom and the CPUC need to go, and all utilities need to be owned by the government and not private companies who have the incentive to continuously raise prices from pressure from stock owners.
Well said.!
Exactly people better start paying attention or it’s gonna get even worse
I sense electrical grid overload and outages more frequently since everyone will stop caring for saving the energy bill if fixed rates are applied. Hell, I’d run AC all day even when I’m not home so my fish in the tank can enjoy cool temp in the air.
I think an investigation needs to be started on why the Cali Gov is trying to kill the state. There must be some kind of monetary gain for them, no one in their right mind would be this insane with the taxes unless they had nefarious intent.
Why isn’t PG&E responsible, and paying a huge fine for our homeowners insurance rates going up because of their neglect!!!
If they do this, I’m unplugging, and going off the grid. I could do it now. Don’t make me!
So… California is proposing a “Sun fee” because people are moving to renewable energy and it hurts their bottom line.
It’s true that someone does have to pay for the upkeep and operation of the distribution system, but this proposal is one more draconian assault on small scale solar, efficiency, and distributed energy, all absolutely critical elements to a robust decarbonized grid. A more equitable plan would be to phase in over time a more modest fixed charge, coupled with a mechanism to buy down that rate with value added energy and grid services from the homes.. Everyone CAN win if this structured intelligently and clearly.
The plodding troll-like lazy stupidity of this proposal, even as just an opening gambit, demonstrates just how disingenuous and bad faith the utilities are where it comes to negotiation. I realize the regulatory folks at these IOUs are “just doing their job” but their job sucks and they should should be ashamed of it.
Has there been any thorough discussion of how income will be verified and whether this fee will reflect the size of families/dependents? I don’t see how this measure remotely reflects the will of CA residents, not how we can hold anyone responsible for it accountable. Frankly this is insulting for families who have invested in solar energy or been mandated to purchase solar panels.
The energy situation in California is absurd and this alone is undermining the state economy. People are leaving, planning to leave, in record numbers. The exodus will continue since for some of us it’s a multi-year plan to execute the relocation, but wheels are already turning.
Energy infrastructure is fundamental to society from citizen residents to all business. The only winners here are the energy companies. Record profit, record price increases, policy that undermines the states purported direction of electrification, and a Governor, CPUC and state legislature that continually show they are owned by power company lobby.
Evidence for that: Power companies lobby the Governor and state legislature with very big money. The Governor appoints the CPUC members who have literally destroyed existing-home rooftop solar ROI with NEM3 while simultaneously approving absurd rate increases for PG&E who is already reporting record profit. The legislature aligns with PG&E by passing AB205 which, by law, makes PG&E a defecto tax collection authority tying electric service (which cannot be disconnected) to income. All of this makes distributed home solar absurdly expensive because of NEM3 batteries for proper sizing, and AB205 adversely changing the math of volumetric ROI. On top that systems that can scale to future resident needs are difficult to get approved.
The decoupling of connection fees, which are set to be a defacto income tax by state law, from volumetric use fees will provide two fees that can be independently argued for increases.
This is an abject failure of the main bodies of state leadership. People and business are leaving California and this alone is reason enough.
Personally, I can only describe it as an extortion racket. 1) There are no real market alternatives as PG&E as the delivery agent charges substantially more than generation & delivery in most parts of the country. I use a 3rd party generator but the delivery is PG&E regardless and almost all cost is in the delivery. 2) I cannot disconnect once connected and now 3) the connect fee has been legislated to be income based so a defacto income tax levied and collected by a for profit company. I also believe this extortion racket will end once PG&E has milked what it needs to rebuild neglected infrastructure and there may be big fines. Those fines will go to the state and not back to the pockets the state has sanctioned be raided.
Absurd, frustrating, failure of the state to protect and serve citizens, all while a publicly traded company is reporting record profits. Those who can will leave, those who cannot leave will be left with a failed state.
Rambling post but I think I represent a great number of people. Unfortunately most people don’t know this is happening. They just see their energy bills and accept the PG&E ad campaign that they are a good neighbor.
This state has become a standard for how to not run a government. This path to total socialism will end up breaking anyone who works or owns a business while the lazy and uneducated are taken care of with zero incentive to do for themselves. Citizens get what they vote for. Do not complain when the people you vote into office are the very people who are destroying your way of life.
The current California government is doing its best to force all those living here ‘legally’ to leave the state. Those who are determined to stay behind end up bearing the brunt of these outrageous taxes and fees. Time for a new government in California.
Interesting. By comparison, the fixed rate on Texas ONCOR to cover infrastructure maintenance and weatherization upgrades is currently $4.23 + $0.0454 per kWh. That’s around $27 to $90 ONCOR charge for a typical 500 to 2000 kWh bill, respectively.
Electric generation then adds $0.039 per kWh (for the cheapest 100% wind energy contract I see right now in my ZIP code – I renew my contract next month), making the entire monthly electric bill around here between roughly $45 and $175.
So the proposed $73 to $128 infrastructure fee in California does seem quite steep to me, especially for those at the low end where money is particularly tight. But I understand California is just a lot more expensive than most other states. Pretty weather, though.
The proposed fixed rate is more than I pay for my monthly electric usage for a 3000 SQ FT home any month of the year, even running the AC in the summer.
How can they possibly justify that rate?
Can’t wait to retire and get the hell out of here.
They need to come up with ways to reduce costs not continuing to increase.
I was born and raised in Central California and when I was flying for UAL I lived in San Francisco. When I was married, we lived in Monte Sereno, CA. My husband was killed in an auto accident which wasn’t his fault. As soon as my 2 kids were off to college, I left Calif. Now my son & grandkids want me to move back to El Dorado Hills and I am NOT SURE I want to go because of what that idiot Newsom has done since he is destroying that state!
Public utilities are accountable to shareholders and board of directors. “The people” of the public need to revolt over the Tierney and mandated monopoly our Public Utilities have become. It is unconstitutional to charge me more for using less because of my income.
This is absolutely the worst possible thing you could do to californians. This state is already devastated and suffering from the cost of living increases as it is. Why is this even on the table considering since 2017 when the paradise fire happened (due to pg&e negligence) our rates have tripled in cost and now you want to add a fixed addition fee to our bills. I’m on social security FIXED INCOME that doesn’t allow for me to pay a penny more than I already am. I think at least have of ppl in Cali low income or fixed income can agree it would be devastating. It’s bad enough that food has tripled in price as well as every day household items which has already made it almost impossible for a low income family to provide adequate care in running a household. talk about kicking a man down when there already down!! WHY SHOULD PEOPLE ALREADY SUFFERING BE FORCED TO MAKE THE RICH RICHER!!!
Commiefornia has been out of control for years. Gavin Newsome is a unbalanced liberal scumbag that only has Commiefornia’s destruction in his sights. If the people of Commiefornia would vote for conservatives they would get their state back. I was out there in 1977, it is a wonderful, beautiful state but I am glad I do not live there
Even if three lefts make a right no amount of twisting logic around will never equate to, hey these people can barely pay the bills they have, so let’s charge every one more including them so they don’t have to pay as much. That math doesn’t work and has never worked. The reason these things have come to pass before is very simple… greed. Unless power companies are posting losses and not the millions in profits they report each quarter, there is no justification for it. Such unjustified actions against the people should be considered the civil equivalent of treason!
Dear California: in spite of having some of the greatest natural resources in the world, in case you hadn’t noticed, people are leaving your state in droves. Thanks to both your gorgeous weather and policies that rob the rich (and middle class) to feed the poor, the homeless aren’t the ones leaving. Best of luck to you. We’ll leave the light on for your best & brightest. – Thank you and *warmest* regards, Texas, Florida, Arizona & friends
You get what you vote for, and apparently Californians like the taste of crap in their mouth, otherwise they wouldn’t keep on electing the politicians that push this crap!
The addition of this single item is more than my annual COLA increase from Social Security. Nothing left for increases on gas and food. This is nuts!
I would like to see them justify that amount. Yes there is a fixed cost for just being connected and having the ability and my gas company charges me $5.75 a month whether I use anything or not, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. Why does the Edison company need hundreds of dollars? And why is it based on number of persons rather than actual usage? Oh well
When will Californians stop voting blue? We are getting exactly what we want, based on who we continue to put into office. Wake the heck up?!
VOTE IN CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, AND YOU ONLY GET MORE OF THIS FROM LIBERAL DEMOCRATS. FOREVER.
WE FIX CALIFORNIA BY VOTING REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVES INTO OFFICE.
I deny having a fixed rate. This is unconstitutional because this is service without any other resource for the public to seek service elsewhere. Also, public utilities should not be for profit since it is the only option for the public. If you intend to have a fixed rate, there should no rules for a citizen to go off grid.
It seems unconstitutional to me (but I’m not an attorney) to allow companies to charge for their electricity when the homeowner isn’t using their electricity and instead uses solar or another form of electricity. And yes, it harms the middle and lower income groups.
I want to know if this can be prevented. It seems like the government should be able to protect us from this kind of outrageous arbitrary charge when the cost of electricity in California is one of the highest in the nation.
Ca also passing beginning black reparations bill for 14 trillion for all blacks for systematic racism. They are just chosing which racial colors will be allowed to live in ca and which ones will not
Wellll, our illustrious governor in this state Gavin Newscum, receives campaign donations from the cpuc and PG&E board of directors that’s just great so of course he’s not going to stand up and speak out against any of this
Additionally I just love how people keep pressing their employers to pay them more money when they should actually tell the government to stay out of their back pocket this is another political scam
Well there goes a lot of California’s residents moving out of California! Do
Not stap this cost on those that are struggling to survive in the middle class.
Remember we can up and leave and California’s debt will only increase.
The CPUC needs to be abolished! And all those in it charged with treason. Disgusting what has happened to CA.
The amount of Dems who can’t see their hand in front of them is so sad. CA Dems claiming energy efficiency is everything meanwhile takes away and declares war on all fronts for energy saving. Insanity.
All.the democratic leadership in this state shood be put in the dunk tank like the bunch of clowns that they are, and give everyone that drops them $10000 of the dollars they have bilked from everyone!!! P.S. After the dunking, they should be tarred and feathered…and run out of the state on a rail!!! P.S
S. recall pelosi so she doesn’t get left out!!
Nobody is giving illegals anything. “Documented workers” pay taxes. Why should they not reap the “rewards”? If SSA requirements aren’t met during their (or anybody else’s) lifetime, no retirement. I am fortunate enough to have enough credits to retire, some who worked their entire lifetime not so fortunate. It’s a constant worry that someone in power will decide to save money by cutting benefits! Some retirement! Energy costs are ridiculous. They have the least capable cradled w/the highest rates & this new “idea” is cutting those w/solar out of any benefit for it. What happens when nobody can afford their services?? Boycott??!
It would seem, based on its recent decisions, that the CPUC is more concerned with protecting the corporate interests and the standard quo than protecting the interests of the people; when the people decide they have had enough they will change the game that is being played against them.
I’m old enough to remember when utilities were “ not for profit “ and pay for what you get… not now and you wonder where it’s all gonna end?
Yes those who need help should get it but how to do that when there’s so much about what actually goes on that we done know about?? How about shining some light around what all those “ taxes” are in my utilities and water etc…that might be a good place to start?
The best FU here is to go battery storage with solar…. but only the upper middle class and above can afford that so that goes against their dumb goal.
The energy generation and distribution businesses and markets are corrupt in California. There’s a Public Utilities Commission assigned to protect the consumer and they are not elected. They are actually puppets of the utilities. They rubber stamp all requests from the utilities. It it was possible to convert babies into profit – this team would approve it.
The only solution is to go off grid or put the grid back under government control. The financial punishment needs to get sooo bad – that it becomes an election issue. We’re not there yet – but getting closer with each one of these changes. NEM 3.0 was supposed to make power cheaper for low income. All they’ve done for everyone is raise rates by upwards of 25%. California may as well be Venezuela. (except we have too much crime)
What about Seniors? I’m a proud homeowner after working two jobs for years to purchase my home. It looks like my home ownership may be slipping away with all of the cost of living increases! Does CA kick Seniors to the curb? We helped make CA the state it is. So what about Seniors now??? My budget doesn’t and can not compete with the seemingly greed that has created a financial sinkhole in CA. Please help us!
Maybe the utilities and state government should look at the unbelievable pay scale for upper level management . Out of control !
I have solar on my house and now I am going to pay more. I am not giving my gross income to the Utility company, it’s none of there business. This is exactly why I’m working on moving out of Commyfornia by next year. I am tired of the cost for everything in California. We have high everything here Commyfornia
1). High taxes
2) High crime
3) High Homeless rate
4) High gasoline prices
5) High DMV fees
6) High Natural gas prices
7) High food cost
8) Property taxes and the state wants Prop 13 gone raising taxes through the roof.
I’m done with Commy California.
I’m 80 on SS and have to have a part time job in addition to that for my house payment, utilities, bare basic phone service and gas for my 20 year old vehicle! There are few extras, as you might well imagine. I struggle now, higher rates from THE ONLY INVESTOR OWNED ELECTRIC Utility will sign my death warrant sooner than later. High salaries and stockholders wealth are killing me and the rest of the working poor in CA. Don’t do it. INVESTOR means gambler: it should be their problem, not mine. Why don’t we have true public utilities! I can’t afford to subsidize gamblers and keep paying higher rates
Hello EP
I concur with you 100%. I am also a disabled senior citizen. With these practices they are eroding our very existence to a total sum of zero. The State of California has to do better by us.
Utilities should be billed based on usage. End of story. We should always be rewarded for our efforts to conserve energy.
I’m 81 years old worked hard all my life this is really terrible what the utility company’s are trying to do to line their pockets also if happens it’s going to effect the very people that work for these big companies that’s really wonderful (not) IS NOT GOOD AT All PERIOD!!!
Unbelievable that our Ca government would let this happen. Ca ripping people off again.I am out of here, by Ca. No more ofmy tax money.
California legislators need to get a grip on this issue before we either vote them all out, vote to replace our current utility provider with a better managed utility system or we leave the state for good. Anything would be better than we have it now with the CPUC at the helm. To add insult to injury, I cringe every time a PGE commercial comes on the PBS news hour telling us how many wonderful things they are doing for Californians!
P.G.E. IS A MONOPOLY ON THE PEOPLE OF CALIF. IT SHOULD BE BROKEN UP FOR COMPETIVE Bidding
Part of me thinks this is just crazy. But in reality, California has been voting for policies that have and continue to only hurt the exact same people that voted for it.
TL:DR – California is getting exactly what they asked for. I for one couldn’t be happier that they are getting exactly what theyve wanted for decades.
The CPUC has become a DISGUSTING ABOMINATION is its intended purpose. The CPUC was created to oversee utilities controlling their efforts to unjustly raise rates on the public. INSTEAD, the CORRUPT CPUC socially engineers our society be unjustly stealing unearned charged for most of the public to GIVE GIFTS to low income users whose low-income situation is their own fault because they refused to do their homework is school and did not learn what they need to be a valuable part of our economy and still refuse to get the training to solve their money issues. Low-income personal money issues are NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF UTILITY CUSTOMERS. Innocent customers are being VICTIMIZED BY THE CPUC and the California Congress. VOTE BETTER NEXT TIME. WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES! ONLY 18 OUT OF 100 ARE ON OUR SIDE.
The income-based part of the fixed charge effectively turns utilities in to taxing authorities. I really don’t believe they have the legal wherewithal to become taxing authorities. Seems like this would be legally challenged and fall if enacted.
I’d love to see them try to implement this plan in a constitutional manner. How woukd they know ones income level without violating the 4th amendment?
P- pompous G-greedy E- evil
This is truly crazy. Why do we continue to allow these companies run our life. It should be public utilities as much money as we put we get nothing but these little programs while they continue to raise the rates. I’m so sick of this we need to figure out how get rid of PGE for good.
Good for them. They are the reason all of us are paying so much. Succeed from the USA
They just want to run every hardworking person out of California so it will be king Newsome and his subjects
Come and upvote this if you’re ready to start doing something about this. If there is enough interest to get the ball rolling we will start organizing.
Are you tired of this? I know I am. Come and let your voice be heard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1bpa2ba/comment/kx5schb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
California should be treated as an economic virus.
Maybe it’s time to replace this board with a group that cares about people paying up vs the utilities that are paying them to ignore what is in the base interest of common people.
Also maybe remove the elected officials that keep appointing them
I don’t understand why Newsom is allowing this to happen. The CPUC seems to be in the pocket of investor owned utilities. They’ve allowed rates to increase again while PG&E makes huge profits and pays out bonuses and dividends. The problems PG&E has with poorly maintained lines and infrastructures are because they paid out dividends rather than investing in maintenance, resulting in catastrophic fires. And the CPUC is allowing them to pass repair costs to us rather than penalizing the stock holders for not replacing PG&E leadership.
Now they have cost jobs and exacerbated global warming. We need the governor and legislature to completely revamp how electric rates are set and who pays for what.
How will they know my income? I sure as hell won’t tell them!
This is getting out of control. I am on disability and am having to choose between paying my electric bill and buying food to eat. With electric going up it also takes money from paying on my other utilities. Shame on these people who take from the low income to make themselves wealthy.
This is just one more prime example of corporate greed being allowed to run rampant. Money is a powerful tool being used by corporate conglomerates to influence our lawmakers that’s what really has to stop their ability to lobby and affect law by paying off the politicians to pass bills which benefit them while clearly taking advantage of their client base. I’m all for capitalism and freedom within our business ventures but where do we draw the line it’s becoming more and more evident in today’s world that are so-called government which in itself is also a business because they’ve all Incorporated does not care whatsoever in the least that corporations are amassing record-breaking profits while wages are lower than ever in comparison to cost of living . These corporations are going to price us right out of life, and if they can’t get it from us one way , they’ll get it from the government in kickbacks and bailouts. When are we as consumers going to take back our power and put a stop to this madness . We are now seeing the same feudal system occurring within capitalism that we saw in Europe hundreds of years ago that caused us to flee and move to America. The goal of these huge conglomerates is to own our lives so that we never have anything and have to work work work work for less and less and less. There are many more of us than there are of them are we really going to sell our lives out to a handful of men just so they can be greedy bastards. I think it’s time for living wage laws to be passed and quality of product laws to be passed and make it illegal to build in breakdown points and fail points.
Why should we pay for PG&R’s mistakes. That’s on them because they should have taken care of this problem along time ago. I feel that they should have to be the ones to pay for out of their own pockets and stop giving their employees a cut on their own bill’s, they should pay the same amount as the rest of Californian’s. I know for a fact that this is what is happening with their employees because I know someone who works for them so there’s no reason to deny it. What they should do is give a cut to low income families and especially the seniors who are not able to pay for their PG&E to the point of not turning on the heat or air conditioning, that’s what should happen.
CPUC is not on the peoples side. I wrongly thought they would be on our side. Now we all know whose side they represent. Edison, PG&E, & the others have gotten away with murdering people for far too long! They need to be regulated & fined for every mistake they’ve made in the past 20 years, but noooo… They ignore the fact that they have failed to keep their promises to do better with fire prevention. They feel that “the people” should pay for what they have or haven’t done. They’ll just continue to party-down with our money, all the while just laughing at the State of California. Slimey rats taking bribes & not realizing it’s all going to come crashing down very soon when certain authorities take over. Then it’s Game Over & their assets will be seized & given back to the people in the State of California! The day we are looking forward to. They don’t believe that Greed is a sin.
Seriously what are our representatives doing for us?? Seriously this is complete greed 💯 enough already!
Another example of bureaucrats acting without any regard for the people they serve. It’s time to get rid of the CPUC. They have never acted in the interest of the people
So glad I just bought solar so they can once again move the goalposts on me, and they wonder why everyone wants to leave California
Everyone in CA should oppose this plan.
They just raised our rates SUBSTANTIALLY three months ago. They must need to raise more money to donate to Newsolini.