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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by rogerbinns on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:20PM (#9998499)
California decouples utility profits from demand/quantity supplied, and has done so since about 1980. If they didn't, then as you point out, the utilities would be trying to get people to consume more.

Here is a two page CPUC brochure (PDF) about it: http://www.fishnick.com/pge/Decoupling_Explained.pdf

Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by Retric on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:59PM (#9998890)
Thanks, that's just odd.