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Welcome to Gilded Age 2.0, a time when government has become an<br />

appendage to <strong>the</strong> super-rich, used by industrialists, financiers and<br />

corporate robber barons to monopolize <strong>the</strong> economy and strip<br />

regular citizens <strong>of</strong> power and money.<br />

PG&E Is A Good Example Of This Process<br />

The Robber Barron Government/Energy Companies:<br />

Citizens <strong>of</strong> California To Pay For PG&E Pipeline Explosion<br />

News Item: PG&E customers get bill for gas rebuild<br />

San Bruno Blast Regulators say customers to pay 65%, no pr<strong>of</strong>it cut<br />

Jaxon Van Derbeke<br />

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers will pay nearly two-thirds <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> $1.8 billion it will cost to upgrade <strong>the</strong> company's natural-gas pipelines,<br />

which were exposed as potentially unsafe by <strong>the</strong> 2010 explosion in San<br />

Bruno, <strong>the</strong> California Public Utilities Commission decided Thursday. Read<br />

More<br />

PG&E misleads on rate increases<br />

Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 <strong>of</strong> two. Part 1 is here.<br />

By<br />

Katy Grimes Nov. 27, 2012<br />

PG&E has openly misled about rate increases. In February 2011,<br />

PG&E announced <strong>the</strong> utility expected its electric rate to remain steady<br />

into 2011. Then it was revealed that PG&E’s 2011-2013 General Rate<br />

Case would bring more rate increases.

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