“Easy” fix
yeah right
it’s a welfare program for attorneys to negotiate the right of ways
Then you let contracts to politically connected contractors
Then you get high priced featherbedding union labor to tear up the city and do the work
Yeah it’s cheap AND easy
I think underground lines make some sense, I mean, think about it, how easy, or hard, would it be for falling trees to snap an underground line? Earthquakes and digging up damaged lines would be another story though.
I think underground lines make some sense, I mean, think about it, how easy, or hard, would it be for falling trees to snap an underground line? Earthquakes and digging up damaged lines would be another story though.
Another fix, the low-maintenance, fully automatic Toshiba reactor they’re thinking of putting in Alaska. Instead of having centralized powerplants costing several billion along with an expensive distribution system, put thousands of these small plants across the country for a distributed power grid of 50 MW plants.
But our expensive and tedious process for approving such plants proved too much for Toshiba, and the plant that was supposed to be going live soon may never happen.
North of the Mason-Dixon Met-Ed was severly reprimanded by the PA Public Utility Commission for its slow response following Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003...a storm that had me 96 hours without power.
The PA-PUC mandated a very aggressive schedule of tree trimming and other preventive maintenance plus installing cut-off fuses at the beginning of long branches of the line. Some of my neighbors’ lane strech 1/2 mile or farther, now their lines are isolated at the beginning of their branch lines.
All that has helped. but still endured two 50 hour outages last year.
And if George Bush were president we KNOW the corrupt MSM would be blaming his lack of compassion for oppressing these people (think: Katrina). Meanwhile, St. Obama get his usual pass.
Underground lines crap out too.
D.C. residents sweltering in the heat.
OK, but where is the problem?
It would be best to shut of the power to D.C. completely March-October. That would help limit the damage.
PING!
Ah! Time for another $2 trillion obama campaign stimulus to get the economy rolling for the unions.
$3000 per foot - ah the joy of monopolies that can just pass their costs on to their customers, unquestioned.
Of course here in DC $3000 per foot does not go far. First there is the pickup truck and couple of guys to operate the rented pavement cutter, and then the guy to operate the backhoe. But then there are all the supervisors and the guys who stand in the road with the stop / go signs and thier deputies, and reliefs and supervisors.
A cynic might also factor in bribes to the city council not to ask too many hard questions, but I think that is a totally over the top and unfair slander against citizens working for the good of the taxpayer like DC Councilmember Marion Barry.
$3000 per foot - ah the joy of monopolies that can just pass their costs on to their customers, unquestioned.
Of course here in DC $3000 per foot does not go far. First there is the pickup truck and couple of guys to operate the rented pavement cutter, and then the guy to operate the backhoe. But then there are all the supervisors and the guys who stand in the road with the stop / go signs and thier deputies, and reliefs and supervisors.
A cynic might also factor in bribes to the city council not to ask too many hard questions, but I think that is a totally over the top and unfair slander against citizens working for the good of the taxpayer like DC Councilmember Marion Barry.