Posted on 10/10/2019 6:54:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Irony - The power is off in those parts of the state that voted for President Trump!
Keep that in mind when you make your silly comments.
The Democrat power base is in San Francisco, Los Angeles and the University cities were part time citizens vote socialist.
The rest of the state are more conservatives.
It is time the state is divided into at least two perhaps three.
PGE should have not only closed up shop, but first addressed debts by dismantling infrastructure and selling it as recyclable scrap.
Your mileage may vary.
Last year the Democrat/Marxist legislature enacted a "gross receipts tax" on every business that does more than a million dollars in gross revenue. So before payroll, or insurance or any expense, they have pay tax on any money taken in over 1 million, oh and that is a reversal of what voters rejected 4 years ago!
I think that I shall never see a thing more combustible than a tree,
A tree protected from fire for years as piles of rubbish around it fills
A tree in drought with little water
A tree where lightning above proceeds
A tree where campfires below may be
A tree though beautiful it may be
Is worshipped by tree huggers like thee
As soon as people started suing PSE&G for damages from wildfires, these blackouts became inevitable.
It just doesn’t make sense for PSE&G to sell power on high wind/high risk days. The money they make does not cover the financial risk if they are going to be held responsible for all fire damage in the area.
You either immunize the utility and let them provide power all the time, or you treat them like any other business, and they will provide power when it is to their advantage, and shut it off when the financial risk is too high.
California has chosen the latter option. Now they must deal with the consequences.
I found that out as I read it, too.
It appeared to be another newspaper publishing it in parallel.
But it is a site that appears to change it up to avoid copyright issues.
It pretty much is.
The width of necessary fire breaks is determined by wind velocity.
Not all of the fire spreading is in wooded areas, some of it is in tightly packed developments of Mcmansions.
I heard SoCal is facing the same thing soon.
These particular types of fires have been started from power lines that go down in strong winds, and because the area is full of dried out underbrush, it catches fire quickly and spreads unbelievably fast.
In essence, they are started by humans, because here it is from mismanagement and too many regulations. Completely avoidable.
I’m not sorry for the California idiots! Let them enjoy the paradise they created. Suffer you idiots, suffer. You deserve every miserable condition that you are subjected to.
Q: What did people in California use to light their homes before they had candles?
A: Electricity!
It is their choice, and people on this site have always hammered them on Forest management. It’s a self inflicted wound and they have chosen to stay.
California has lots of nice desert that never burns though.
They do that in every article. I get it now. It’s just really weird.
“Let’s try and remember we have FRiends that live in Cali. It’s not funny for them.”
Collateral damage...like me here in illannoy and others in NJ, NY, OR WA, HA etc.
If they want new transmission lines, just have all the illegals they relish out there hold hands from the Cal northern border to Bonneville and connect them.
One thing they have an abundance of in Cal is attorneys, have a concern, you can easily find one who will take up your case be it a grievance, environmental concern, criminal, business tort of some kind or whatever. My buddy’s wife was assaulted at work at PGE by a minority. PG and E settled with her...immediate full retirement, full benefits and financial settlement because they would not fire the assaulter due to her minority status. Only loser the company and indirectly the rate payers.
The forests were overgrown when I lived there nearly fourty years ago. And for some reason they keep having the same fires.
You know, just mounting the damn things on a pole a few feet from the house would solve the problem....
Tesla owners call in sick today.
Trump should immediately make a beeline there while the iron is hot!! Lots of potential voters!!!
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