The environmentalists are so strong and powerful they’ve destroyed the laws, rules and regulations to keep the lights on. Newsom is blaming PG&E but it’s the government forcing this stuff. Environmentalists demand shoddy power like windmills, and solar which would go down anyway if connected to the power grid....then there is the rules and laws against wood stoves and barbecues( in some areas).
These idiots believe in their platitudes and do zero cost analysis nor hardships sand power which means production, all production including gas stations comes to a standstill. Banks close, everything stops except people with generators which run on gas or diesel.
The 61/90 democrats( read leftist communists) in Sacramento love a good socially engineered crisis. Taxes and forcing a confabulated Green New Deal is their goal. Killing their own fools who voted for them is their goal. Destroying borders and forcing us to finances illegals is their goal. In essence their goal is to fundamentally change California and the United States one blacked out home at a time.
They don’t clear the underbrush. That’s the biggest factor..In a sane world they would be sued into oblivion for all the damage they’ve caused.