[Evans, Marv]

in my area SDG&E has raised their electricity costs and more than doubled natural gas costs. They have a three tiered charging sutructure for electric. Last I remember, the first tier was mid 20 cents/kWh, second tier was mid 30 cents/kWh, & third tier was low 40 cents/kWh. Last year they lowered the top of tier 1 by about 130 kWh. rather than obviously raise tier rates a lot. New rates went into effect this year. I tried to find the new tier rates 7 wasn't too successful. I did find a rate chart for residential with the first two tier rates, but I'm not sure about accruacy. But the first tier rate was listed as 45 cents/kWh, 7 the second tier rate was listed as 57 cents/kWh. I didn't see a rate for the third tier. I know they more than doubled the rate for natural gas, and I'm assumiing they use a lot for gneration, so an increase can be expected. Maybe their wholesale rate for electricity has risen from two to four cents to four to six cents.