Bob Filner: “I will tell the gentlemen, by the way, that because the situation in San Diego has become so grave with doubling and…”

“I will tell the gentlemen, by the way, that because the situation in San Diego has become so grave with doubling and tripling of rates, with scores of businesses facing bankruptcy and closing their doors, the whole community is virtually united as saying we must get control of our future. We are going to establish in San Diego a municipal utility district where we can begin to get some leverage on the system. If we owned 1,000 megawatts of electricity, one-third of our needs, we could have tremendous impact on the whole situation. So we in San Diego, like the State of California in general, is moving toward a municipal ownership, to get out of, really, the heel of the cartel of energy wholesalers that is destroying our economy.”