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Hi all, Please spread this alert far and wide to every Californian
you know.<br>
<br>
Tell The California Public Utilities Commission:<br>
Don't Let Fossil Fuel Energy Corporations Hijack Our Energy
Efficiency Funds!<br>
<br>
This Thursday August 2, 9am, the California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC) will vote on vital permissions to allow local
communities to spend their own funds to greatly increase
installation of energy efficiency, in order to lower electricity
bills, fight the climate crisis, and provide badly needed local
jobs.<br>
<br>
For decades, the monopoly fossil fuel energy corporations which
control our electricity grid, PG&E, SDG&E, and Southern
California Edison, have been allowed to manage these funds, which
are generated from a state approved surcharge on every electricity
customer's bill. But because it is not in the interest of
corporations selling fossil fuel energy to get customers to buy less
of that energy, the efficiency programs created under this corporate
control have been wasteful and minimal.<br>
<br>
Marin County, the cities of Richmond and San Francisco, and other
California cities, are now working hard to bring energy efficiency
funds back to the communities and ratepayers that paid for them in
the first place to engage much stronger local programs. If these
communities succeed in asserting their clear right to these funds,
it will set the stage for all other cities and counties in
California to do the same.<br>
<br>
But the fossil energy monopolies are now putting massive lobbying
pressure on the CPUC to reject local community use of energy
efficiency funds. If Californians don't speak up, these monopolies
will be sure to get their way.<br>
<br>
WHAT YOU CAN DO:<br>
<br>
EMAIL THE CPUC TODAY!<br>
(AND IF YOU CAN, SPEAK AT THE THURSDAY AUG 2ND HEARING IN SAN
FRANCISCO!)<br>
<br>
Email the following sample, with a few of your own added words, to
the CPUC at: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov">public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov</a><br>
<br>
Subject: Please Vote Yes On Res E-4518 - Marin Energy Authority
Efficiency Plan<br>
<br>
"Dear CPUC Commissioners,<br>
<br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(37, 64, 97); ">Please
vote yes on Resolution E-4518 to approve the Marin Energy
Authority 2012 Energy Efficiency Plan</span>. The funds that
customers pay for energy efficiency programs should be overseen by
their own local communities, not the fossil fuel based electricity
monopolies.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
[your name, California city, and Zip Code]"<br>
<br>
SPEAK AT THE HEARING<br>
<br>
<span style="color:#254061">The Commission hearing will be held on
Thursday, August 2, 9am, at the CPUC Auditorium, 505 Van Ness
Avenue in San Francisco (cross-corner from San Francisco City Hall
and 5 blocks from Civic Center BART). </span><span
style="color:#254061">Show up a little early to sign a public
comment form to address agenda item 24, or </span><span
style="color:#254061">alternatively sign up online by noon on
Wednesday August 1, at: <a
href="https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/requesttocomment/"><span
style="color:#254061">https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/requesttocomment</span></a><br>
<br>
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COMMISSION MAY DECIDE TO HOLD THIS ITEM UNTIL
THEIR NEXT MEETING - So before you come to San Francisco to speak,
check online after 5pm on Wednesday August 1, at <a
href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/AGENDA/171103.htm"><span
style="color:#254061">http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/AGENDA/171103.htm</span></a>
to make sure there has been no 'hold' placed on the item.</span><br>
<br>
Thanks for your public action on this crucial clean energy decision!<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks<br>
Campaign Coordinator, Our City<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://our-city.org">http://our-city.org</a><br>
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