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Speaker 1: Next hour, we are going other No, not next hour,

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Speaker 1: accident in Dana Point. The driver that crashed into the cyclist,

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Speaker 1: and that artificially constrains the natural gas supply here. They

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Speaker 1: the let's well for gasoline, and they said, well, you

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Speaker 1: know there was a refinery that was down. Stop it.

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Speaker 1: Build the infrastructure to make it work, build the redundancy

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two filings and Semper Energy, which owns

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Speaker 1: Net income fell in twenty twenty one. However, the CEO,

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Speaker 1: you know the raisings. You know, we have a we

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Speaker 1: five million. The chief financial officer, Trevor Mitlick was paid

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Speaker 1: So you have three guys, Jeffrey Martin, Trevor Millick or

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Speaker 1: my Halleck Kevin Siagara. Oh my god, you know how

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Speaker 1: much they made total between the three of them, forty

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Speaker 1: is up more than quadruple, and some of that money's

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Speaker 1: going to Jeffrey, Trevor and Kevin what the hell? We

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Speaker 1: won't know what they made in twenty twenty two till

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Speaker 1: late this year because they don't even have to file

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Speaker 1: months after that until it's released to the public. Now

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Speaker 1: that is, and Martin, Mahaaleck and Seagara have also accumulated

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Speaker 1: pension benefits. They have something called the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you like to have one of these sixty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars sixty million dollars for the three of them sitting

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Speaker 1: there waiting? So what are we up to now? The

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Speaker 1: three executives at the end of twenty twenty one, we'll

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Speaker 1: be compensated eventually a total of one hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars forty million for the work they did,

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Speaker 1: and sixty million waiting in their retirement accounts. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: you'll hear defenders of these extreme corporate salaries saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you Raley, it's just a drop in the bucket in

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Speaker 1: the overall budget and it's early not that big. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Eleli Times did the math on that, you know, how

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Speaker 1: we're getting a climate credit rebate about fifty dollars. Well,

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Speaker 1: that would that hundred million dollars. That's enough for two

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Speaker 1: million households to get the fifty dollars rebate. That's a

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Speaker 1: third of the company's natural gas meters in southern California,

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Speaker 1: so a third of their company, a third of their

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Speaker 1: paid to the three executives for one year plus there

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Speaker 1: plus their pension. In fact, that hundred million dollars could

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Speaker 1: cover a five hundred dollars rebate for two hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: not to mention the one point three four billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in net profit. Well, if you carved up that profit

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Speaker 1: get five hundred dollars. So, as you would expect, there

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Speaker 1: might be market forces at work, but a lot of

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Speaker 1: that is self inflicted because of our idiot government, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do these greedbag executives.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea why Jeffrey Martin should get twenty

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Speaker 1: five million dollars. Of course, nobody ever explains it. Nobody

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Speaker 1: ever justifies it. They just take the money twenty five

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Speaker 1: million for a year. And so called Gas said, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: prices will drop soon. In fact, Gas claims that there'll

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Speaker 1: be a sixty eight percent decrease in prices this month

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Speaker 1: compared to last month, sixty eight percent. But guess what,

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Speaker 1: even after the sixty eight percent drop, the prices will

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Speaker 1: still be significantly higher than they were a year ago.

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Speaker 1: They did ask a semper spokeshole. Reporters asked about the compensation,

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Speaker 1: r ratepayers pay the executives. It's determined by criteria, which

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Speaker 1: includes factors like public safety, employee safety, and relatability. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean? Public safety, employee safety, they get, they get,

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Speaker 1: they get. He gets a five million dollar raise for

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Speaker 1: employee safety. But you know, the whole world's cricket, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: The government, big business, members of your family. Everybody's cricket.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's just grabbing a piece. All right. We come back

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Speaker 1: right after the two o'clock news. We are going to

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Speaker 1: talk with Alex Stone from ABC to discuss the great

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Speaker 1: Chinese balloon caper that entertained everyone over the weekend. Debra

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Speaker 1: Mark live in the twenty four hour Cafe newsroom