Posted on 11/20/2019 2:20:14 AM PST by Libloather
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was set to begin shutting off power Wednesday to some 375,000 people in 18 Northern and central California counties as the region faces extreme fire weather that’s lasted since October.
A virtually rainless fall has left brush bone-dry and forecasts called for low humidity and winds gusting at times to 55 mph (88.5 kph), which might fling tree branches or other debris into power lines, causing sparks that could set catastrophic fires in the region, PG&E officials said.
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The planned blackout would be the latest in a series of massive outages by the country’s largest utility, including one last month that affected nearly 2.5 million people and outraged local officials and customers who accused the utility of overkill and using blackouts as a crutch because it failed to harden its equipment to withstand fire weather.
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This is a progressive dream come true. They get to reduce other people’s “Carbon Footprint” without inconveniencing the elites who rule.
Would it have killed Time to have included a map of the affected areas?
...Or was this intended to be an opinion piece of anti-business propaganda as opposed to being useful news???
One is to continue on President Trump’s attempt to make America great again and the other is to allow Democrats to regain power have the rest of the country follow California in its socialist self assisted suicide.
Only it will be worse, much worse in fact, for the rest of us. California is being supported and propped up by the rest of the forty nine states in the union.
Already, California’s insane environmental regulations and utopian, pie in the sky, green energy policies have made California a massive net energy supporter which has been able to provide power to its residents only by buying from out of state energy producers
If the rest of the country goes the way of California then there will be nobody to support California and the whole system will collapse. Even with massive outside support, California is rapidly falling into decline and its current political, environmental and social polices cannot provide for basic maintenance of its most infrastructure required to support a modern, high population density industrial society.
Basic infrastructure for electricity, water and transportation is being stretched beyond limits by massive influx of illegal aliens while at same time it us being neglected in favor of welfare spending and falling into an increasingly deteriorated state.
Due massive asset and resource misallocation combined with insane regulation mandates, California does not have the necessary resources to maintain the system so it is falling into disrepair
Bingo.
Just wait until the Satanic global government controls who can buy or sell - anything (Revelation 13).
Stay inside Ethel ... it’s fire weather season
Sacramento = Pyongyang
No fire danger for Sacremento?
Or does that area get power because it’s the state capital and some animals are more equal than others?
In some sense I see these PG&E shutoffs as an “Atlas Shrugs” type thing. While I suppose that PG&E might share some of the blame, it seems like they were following the “rules” in operating their business.
Then they got blamed and sued for that big fire.
Now, in order to not get sued - they shut the power down.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they get sued or punished somehow for these shutoffs.
I wonder if they’ll have enough balls to blow up all their substations as they leave?
Shortly after the Paradise fire I was speaking with a friend down that way.
“I had a job up in Paradise a couple of years ago. Driving in - it scared me to death. I was almost going to book a motel in another town - but it wasn’t fire season, so took my chances. But that whole town was nothing but brush and trees.”
Have real estate prices come down any in the impacted areas?
California can’t keep the electric on now. What are they going to do when they force everyone to have electric cars?
Agenda 21....
Basic infrastructure for electricity, water and transportation is being stretched beyond limits by massive influx of illegal aliens while at same time it us being neglected in favor of welfare spending and falling into an increasingly deteriorated state.
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Spoke with an upscale suburban Chicago woman this past weekend. Too many people, not enough electricity production resulting in repeated outages of a couple of days each. She finds that intolerable.
Don’t know her politics. She and her husband are looking to move, though. Gen Xers with two MD specialty degrees, so they might be disillusioned D voters. Or not; you never know and I was in no position to probe the issue.
California is making it untenable for PGE to operate in California with a comprehensive and conflicting suite of regulations that simply box PGE in.
Pretty sure PGE is doing a version of Atlas Shrugged where they are making California's politicians and residents live in the irrational world that have created for themselves and deal with consequences
Timing suggests so.
Doing this in moderate Fall weather means nobody is dying of heat or freezing to death and season has minimal power demands which simplifies shutting off and reinstating power. It also minimizes PGE lost revenue too.
Business decision to hard ball California politicians is a definite goal.
It may also have to do with basic power availability. Timing suggests that shut offs coincide with periods of non availability of wind or solar power or ability to import power from neighboring states
“Only it will be worse, much worse in fact, for the rest of us. California is being supported and propped up by the rest of the forty nine states in the union.”
The state government here is in fact totally screwed up. That being said, you do understand that federal tax revenues sent to Washington DC from California are greater than federal expenditures within the state, right? And that California is the leading agricultural state in the union, right? I’m not sure your contention is a fair assessment of the situation.
While we’re at it, though California does need to import almost a third of its electrical power, it’s also the third biggest producer of electricity in the country.
Sacramento should be Shut Down First and not be turned back on until the rest of the citizens have electricity
Also this dry season will end. Probably with flooding.
It’s raining in Southern California. Rain is coming to Sacramento next week. Not sure why power outages were even scheduled in the first place.
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