SUNNI: Hi, Mark; how are you today? MARK: Burnt. I've been hacking up trees that we had taken down for power line clearance. It was 102° out there this afternoon. SUNNI: Ouch. Why did the trees need to be hacked? MARK: Annual power line maintenance on a rural property can cost the power company as much as a year's worth of electricity. The whole thing has become something of a scam, because the California Public Utilities Commission allows the power company to add a direct markup to the line maintenance cost. So they just love environmentalist-inspired regulations that favor expensive...