Opinion ID: 1297749
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 20

Heading: Petition of Blincoe.

Text: Petitioner Blincoe, for himself and as president of the Utility User's League of California, a nonprofit association, makes unsupported charges that since 1947 Pacific's rates have been set by the commission on evidence fraudulently presented by Pacific and therefore have been unjust, and argues that the commission should have ordered Pacific to make a refund to customers of all sums collected since 1947 in excess of a 5 per cent rate of return on a rate base and with allowed expense to be recomputed according to theories advanced by Blincoe. Included in this argument is an attack on the method of handling depreciation allowances. From what has already been said in this opinion it is clear that fixing of the rate of return, rate base and expenses are matters falling within the scope of the commission's authority; and petitioner Blincoe has shown no basis for interference by this court. For the reasons above stated, those portions of the commission's decision No. 67369 which purport to order and provide for a refund to customers of amounts collected by petitioner Pacific prior to the effective date of such decision are annulled. The decision is affirmed in all other respects.