Businesses blast electricity rate-hike proposal .
But it's another to pretend, as the state Public Utilities Commission is doing, that putting almost all the burden on business is going to work. Don't take seriously the scare stories that droves of businesses will load up their trucks and flee Silicon Valley. Still, you have to ask if the PUC really thinks businesses will just eat the rate increases. California has yet to even begin dealing with this crisis in a realistic way. Unfortunately, it's hard to see what will make it happen, because politics and truly ugly business practices are getting in the way.