[mjp]

First put onerous regulations on the Utility Companies, then when the wildfires happen and burn down hundreds of homes, the legal damages cause the Utility Companies to go bankrupt resulting in Government run Utility Companies....which putting the Government in the business of owning utility companies will solve all the problems.

central planning + narrow political incentives and decisions + statist bureaucratic management + state ownership & state control + statist monopoly = economic chaos + destruction + inefficiencies + waste = disaster & catastrophe & misery

[usconservative]

central planning + narrow political incentives and decisions + statist bureaucratic management + state ownership & state control + statist monopoly = economic chaos + destruction + inefficiencies + waste = disaster & catastrophe & misery

If I had more coffee in me this morning, I'd turn this into several different math formula's including Algebra, Calc and Trig......

Just to make the point you're so eloquently making mathematically of course.