Posted on 11/25/2021 9:27:22 AM PST by george76
The largest utility company in Southern California cut power to thousands of customers across higher elevations of Los Angeles, leaving many households without electricity for Thanksgiving.
Edison International’s Southern California utility cut power to 32,036 residential and commercial building structures in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties to prevent wind storms from toppling power lines that would stoke fires in the drought-stricken region. The utility projects up to a quarter-million customers could lose service around Los Angeles and San Diego.
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Edison warned more customers are likely to lose power, and San Diego Gas & Electric, another local utility, could turn off power to 52,000 customers.
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There were even reports of a crazed liberal university professor starting fires.
How do I charge my Tesla?
Tesla solar panels of course.
That’s the same game that our unvetted Afghan jihadists can play as long as they are here. America, you really know how to screw yourself 24/7.
Still, most of us remember when regulated public utilities didn’t have these problems. They really started happening with the big push to deregulate the power industry in the 1990s. The notion of a planned outage to prevent fires was just not conceivable in the industry.
LOLOLOL Couldn’t happen to a worthier state!
I guess they can’t be honest and say they have no margin for all of the electric ovens in use today. Can’t say that I blame them, given what the state can do to them, if they want to.
Oh sorry, fire danger today, no electricity for you! Maybe a nice dinner at McWhopper or Chickenlicken will suffice.
Go California!
Does that one have an oil filter and how often do you change the oil?
It burns those nasty fossil fuels doesn’t it? Don’t let the FBI see you.
Why don’t you buy an electric Generac?
Better yet, why don’t you cover yourself in solar panels?
Time to buy a propane powered generator.🤔
Viva Fossil Fuels!
Perhaps it’s time to shut off the gas to the WH and Capitol Building and prohibit the sale of gas ovens and gas heated water heaters. Go ahead, do your heating electrically.
That is a natural response, and much the same as everyone's willingness to do without power temporarily to protect the safety of linemen working on the power lines. But you should not have to make that choice, and people who suffer as a result of losing their power should not be required to bear that burden either. It is surely within the technical ability of our nation to safely provide power when it is windy. Utilities all over the world manage to do just that on a daily basis.
Maybe some brush cutting and tree trimming is needed, or wider power line right of ways, or a network of downed line and fire sensors located along power lines. And maybe the utility needs to pay its customers for every hour they are without power, and for the damages from any fires their equipment starts. Or they can hire local fire wardens, or spend the money to install underground transmission lines, or localized power sources.
I am sure the power companies can do what they used to do to prevent fires, and the state can do what they used to do to prevent and fight fires. They just need the appropriate motivation.
American empire is gone. You think we can generate enough electricity to keep our industry going for one day without the use of fossil fuels? That is Biden-think.
Without our industry, there is no America.
Don’t hate the state.
Get rid of the people who run it.
The turkey thanks you. And so do all the trimmings,
California is A Turd.
How those Teslas doing?
LNG is the answer
Lol. I think that would get your point across.
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