I just read in the Sacramento Bee that SMUD (Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District) is looking to boost rates by 13% over the next 1-1/2 years.  Why, you ask?  They say it’s because less electricity is being used.  WHAT THE FUCK?????  Yup, with the downturn in the economy, there are fewer businesses using juice.

Wait a sec.  If there is less demand for power, that’s less juice SMUD has to produce and/or buy.  The shit can’t be stored.  The bigger the demand, the more spark they have to provide.  The smaller the demand, the less spark they need to provide.  So doesn’t it make sense that their costs to supply the very same electricity that is no longer in demand should be non-existent?

So, would I be correct in assuming that they need a 13% hike because their isn’t enough profit to pay the salaries of the people who make the juice?  The same group of people who ran the juice making machines that are no longer making juice due to this “recession-induced” decline, as they put it?

I have an idea for all those SMUD employees walking around doing nothing.  Send them over to the DMV and retrain them.  Reduce, reuse, recycle.

BTW, SMUD is a non-profit utility company.

p.s.  We’re not in a recession.  The correct term is depression.  When banks go bankrupt, when businesses close, when people lose their jobs, when credit is no where to be found, when people lose their homes, when shelters are full and can’t even stock their own shelves, that’s a depression.

p.p.s.  Why do people declare bankruptcy and banks don’t declare peopruptcy?

Anyone care to join me in a grave digging session?  Get the shovel.  SMUD’s going under.