forward to make sure we provide to everyone, reliable and affordable public power and with that i'd leung to ask my colleague, senator scott wiener to come up and say a few words. >> so we can get on with this process and this is not a short term issue, this is going on forever and ever, san francisco has struggled with g and e for so long and we've seen the problems caused when you have a utility which is so massive, offering such an untenable geography that it's not keeping up its assets. it's so focused on performing for wall street it doesn't make basic say tvusd and infrastructure investments so san bruno, paradise, et cetera, et cetera, and you've heard the consequences here in san francisco. energy is not cheap from pg&e. we pay a lot. it's not like pg&e is somehow the low cost provider, it's not. it's the highest or among the highest in tractor-trailer country because of its own negligence. we in san francisco have experience and you heard this from the mayor and the city attorney, firsthand, that the local obstruction and the children's museum it's my old supervisor directing. wh