Opinion: One size does not fit all on how to spend the CPS Energy surplus in a city with one of the highest poverty rates.
. Those programs address the burden of rising utility bills on the city’s most economically vulnerable citizens and climate change.
A lot of the city’s working poor were unable to pay their CPS Energy and SAWS bills during the two-year pandemic, when many lost jobs or were forced by circumstances, including closed schools, to stay at home with their children and elders. Amending the Walsh proposal to only give rebates to low-income ratepayers would address the questionable value of reducing the July utility bill for affluent ratepayers who live in San Antonio and the surrounding communities serviced by CPS Energy.
Sooner or later, the conversation at City Hall and in the business community has to focus more on practical measures to mitigate climate change. Right now it’s an us-versus-them dynamic that vilifies legacy energy producers when the reality is almost all of us remain dependent on a fossil fuel-driven economy.
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