Corporatism, the merger of business with government, is the defining characteristic of the climate scam and our friends at Green Leap Forward have been focused on a particular aspect of this fraud for some time. Now, Chris Bray, at "Tell Me How This Ends” has exposed it in great detail in posts here and here. Excerpts from the first of Bray's posts follow to demonstrate the brazen and toxic nature of green energy corporatism in California:
In 2002, the California legislature passed the Community Choice Aggregation Act, a measure allowing local governments to create new electric power utilities through the use of joint powers agreements. Cities and counties can join together and create new governments, joint powers authorities, to sell electricity. If you click on that last link, you’ll see this extremely important sentence about the legal relationship between community choice aggregators (the new governments that sell electricity) and the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) like PG&E and Southern California Edison: “The IOU continues to provide transmission and distribution, metering, billing, collection, and customer service to retail customers participating in CCAs.” Remember this sentence, because we’ll come back to it in just a moment.
So a community choice aggregator, which is a local government created by local governments, sells electricity, and the local governments that created the community choice aggregator transfer their residential and commercial utility customers to the new community choice aggregator. They vote to say that you, Christopher Thelonious P. Bray at 23 Maple Lane, are now a customer of the new government we created. They’ve done this, so far, to a total of 14 million utility accounts, taking people who were customers of private utility companies and making them customers of new governments. And unless you’re reading the agenda of your city council or your county board of supervisors, or you read all of your junk mail very carefully, you don’t know that this has happened to you.
Then, as your city votes to change your utility account to a different provider, let’s go back a paragraph to see how it works: “The IOU continues to provide transmission and distribution, metering, billing, collection, and customer service to retail customers participating in CCAs.”
See what that means? Your utility account was changed without your permission or your knowledge, you’re now paying a portion of your electric bill to an obscure joint powers authority, and the investor-owned utility that was selling you electricity last week is still the complete public face of the electric power you buy. Your bill still says “Southern California Edison” on it, say for example, and if your power goes out you call Southern California Edison, and the trucks that come out to fix the power lines say “Southern California Edison” on the side.
But you’re no longer a customer of Southern California Edison, which now collects the money that you owe your community choice aggregator — your new local government. The IOU, the private utility company, also charges you for the delivery of that electricity and the maintenance of the power grid, in a separate line item, and a new line item on your bill identifies your power generation charge. But your bill otherwise looks the same.
The effect: people don’t know where their money is going. Government switches your utility account from a private company to a new government, a joint powers authority, but your bill and your maintenance and your customer service all look the same…
PG&E is making me pay for some “Ava Community Electric Generation” thing, what a scam! Those jerks at PG&E, my electric power utility.
But Ava Community Energy is a marketing name for a local government, the East Bay Community Energy Authority — a community choice aggregator. This person is no longer a customer of PG&E, and he doesn’t know it. He’s buying electricity from a government.
Think about this: 14 million customers who don’t know where the money goes when they pay their electric bill.
We’re about the get to that moment when I said the light would go on.
I live in the service area of a community choice aggregator called the Clean Power Alliance, which operates in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Here are the important numbers in their most recent budget
They have revenues over $1.5 billion, with a b, and an annual surplus — what the private sector would call a profit — in the hundreds of millions. All of that comes from the operations of a new local government that took a stream of revenue from private corporations by voting to transfer their customers. Now look at the lower parts of that same budget page, and note especially the line item at the bottom:
They have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves — that they got from people who are scratching their heads and wondering why the hell the greedy bastards at Southern California Edison are charging them so much money.
But here’s the next important piece:
The Clean Power Alliance, with its hundreds of millions of dollars in reserves, is one of…twenty-five community choice aggregators in California. There are just over two dozen of these new governments, each piling up their own reserves. Fourteen million customers, by the way, is fourteen million households and businesses, so it’s a lot more than fourteen million people.
What do they do with all that money? LOL, ladies and gentlemen, LOL:
They’re working to shape the legislative and regulatory environment, you see…
The California Public Utilities Commission, working right at the heart of their regulatory mandate, has defined the kind of social justice communities that community choice aggregators can support:
The grants, so far, have not been large. But the available money is growing rapidly, and it’s not just going to sit there…
So:
California has twenty-five new local governments that will take tens of billions of dollars from private utilities every decade, developing billions of dollars in cash reserves while explicitly turning toward energy equity, climate justice, youth training, and re-shaping the legislative and regulatory environment through partnerships with non-profit social justice corporations.
We’re politicizing utility bills, and we’re doing it very, very quietly.
Bray has done a magnificent job in focusing sunlight on this massive fraud. As he explains, this is nothing less than a totally corrupt scheme to impose on a hidden tax on Californians for the purpose of creating Democrat slush funds. Worse, it is being advanced by calling it a choice when there is no choice whatsoever to be had on the part of those taxed. It is blatant fascism, especially in regard to the manner in which the taxes generated are being used politically to elect Democrats and promote the climate scam from which the promoters of the scam hope to steal trillions in subsidies from government.
It's an unbelievably dishonest scheme. The fact that the promoters have gotten away with it to date illustrates the depth of the corruption that is California today and which has led Western civilization to the brink of disaster. And, let me point out that the real utility companies appear to have done little or nothing to expose the rot. Like all big utilities, they are content to let their customers take the hit for insane energy policies. There are no true public service ethics in public utilities. We see this not only in California but also in New York where ConEd and National Grid have both rolled over to Cuomo/Hochul green energy politics they know won't work.
Nonetheless, corporatism, California style, has taken things to a new and dangerous level, where the schemers barely care if anyone even notices. The fraud is being normalized, in fact, just another sign that we are inching ever closer to Banana Republic status and the rot that brought the Roman Republic to an end, unless we turn things around quickly.
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Every time I wonder if these grifting scum can get any worse, I am blown away by the answers.
I don't remember Corporatism mentioned as part of the Constitution.🤔