Cash for consumers

Combined with the credits that were issued in April, Californians will receive an average of $217 total, according to Newsom’s office.Californians pay more than twice the national average in electricity, with bills nearly doubling within the last decade. Small businesses, particularly in rural areas, also struggle with high electric bills. A legislative proposal to give households a one-time credit on their bills, which would have been funded by cutting programs that help low-income customers, failed in August.And for Southern California drivers, Attorney General Rob Bonta is urging residents who bought gas between Feb. 20, 2015 and Nov. 10, 2015 to submit an online claim for a possible payout. In July, gas trading firms settled a $50 million lawsuit that alleged they were secretly colluding “to tamper with and manipulate spot market prices for California gasoline.”State senators are meeting next week in a special session to consider a bill& passed by the Assembly& that would require oil refineries to keep a minimum inventory of fuel to ease gas price spikes.The post Cash for consumers appeared first on The Sacramento Observer.