California’s Dark Ages

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 10, 2019

[bgill]

Firefighters won’t be called because people’s cell phone won’t be charged. If they were called on a land line, they couldn’t get there without gas in tank. Do they have firefighters staying at the stations since they probably don’t have enough gas in their personal vehicles to get to and from work?

Bunch of stinky men by the end of the week without bathwater.

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "Some of the Amish use compressed air as a power source."
That is an interesting idea use air brakes on a car. That is a great idea.

[bgill]

Those who got rid of their generators will be wishing they hadn’t the next time they need them.

[bert]

what good is a generator if your house and all are burned and gone?

Compared to to Gaia, you and your stuff are trivial nothingness

The fallacious assumption is that if there is no power line defect to start fires there will be no fires.

As the President always says......We’ll see

[Lurker]

I don’t know. I’ve never asked them.

L

[Disambiguator]

the tunnel connecting San Francisco with the East Bay are operating on generators

Which tunnel is that? The BART tube?

[ssaftler]

Can’t be sued for fires if there is no electricity going through the lines.

Don't bet on it. I think San Jose is already planning to sue PG&E for added expenses to keep the locals from "collecting their due" while the power and alarms were off.

[Honest Nigerian]

Should utilities be free? You need them to survive like health care. A lot of other things are being claimed as free.
* * * * * * * * * *
You beat me to it: Electricity is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT. Just like Health Care.
So pull out a gun and force PG&E to flip the switch.
/s

[redgolum]

Elections have consequences.

[dynachrome]

I saw a story, I don’t remember where, about a run on generators and oil lamps in some areas, probably a bit more urban.

[jaydubya2]

They should put a trailer hitch on the back of that electric car and they could have unlimited power.

[Regulator]

Nobody voted for the Wall Street Journal to recycle nonsense.

[redgolum]

The WSJ is not why part of California is dark

[woodbutcher1963]

thanks

[Scott from the Left Coast]

California needs it’s own Trump type figure to take out Newsom in the next election.

[Regulator]

No, they aren’t, but peddling the BS from the people who ARE responsible don’t help

[woodbutcher1963]

Is that a recent picture or an old photo you found?

[Don W]

I just did a quick image search and it was on the page. There are literally dozens like it.

The car is no more than 2 or 3 years old.

[NormsRevenge]

Morons on steroids ain’t a pretty thing to watch as they act out their fantasies.

[NormsRevenge]

The Caldecott tunnels.. they shut 2 of 4 down as they are older tunnels that weren’t required to have sprinkler and safety systems like the new tunnels have.