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Posted on 10/30/2019 7:59:48 PM PDT by rintintin
The PG&E power transmission system has been allowed to decay (or hasn't been upgraded) so it can't withstand high winds without possibly causing fires. That's why electricity has had to be turned out for millions of Californians during the recent high-wind events.
Who was in power over the past decade, as the electricity system has been allowed to languish, without adequate modernization and safety upgrades?
Jerry Brown was governor from 2011 to 2019.
Kamala Harris was attorney general during the same period.
Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco, PG&E's largest municipal customer.
None of these powerful politicians did anything - or at least didn't do enough - to make sure that California's power infrastructure was brought into the 21st century.
Jerry's career is already over, but Kamala and Newsom have national aspirations. No more. They can forget about that now. They are the blackout queen and king of American politics. Indeed, at the next debate, Kamala MUST be asked why as AG she didn't push PG&E to upgrade its systems. Of course, she can't give a credible answer, but the question has to be asked, to provide a fitting and final postmortem as the lights go out on her expiring presidential campaign.
That’d be nice, but somehow I doubt it. Still, I hope you’re right.
Democrat history: what happens today is forgotten tomorrow
Is there a link? Is this a vanity?
They could at least do some ‘low tech’ maintenance like clearing trees and brush away from the lines.
Yes. I want to see Gavin and Kamala wearing orange vests, clearing brush along with a prison work crew.
Newsom and Harris and Brown and the liberal media, will probably claim that it’s not in their jurisdiction to intervene in the private enterprise system. Hypocritically.
They want government intervention only when it suits them politically. The California fires ain’t their problem, neither is the crumbling electric power system. So they’ll say.
Kamaltoe is toast.
They could at least do some ‘low tech’ maintenance like clearing trees and brush away from the lines.
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That negligence is absolutely criminal. And unbelievably chicken-sh*t. Afraid to cut down trees and trim brush for fear of angering the pathetic green bugs that infest politics like a plague.
Newsom and Harris and Brown and the liberal media, will probably claim that it’s not in their jurisdiction to intervene in the private enterprise system.
No, PG&E is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, its members appointed by the governor.
Actually, you may be right, noble dog. I’ve a hunch that most sane Americans are realizing or have known for a long time that California’s hippie forest policies (”Let it grow ... man ... “) are at fault for the rash of fires.
That freaking state needs to do something liberals cannot by their very nature do ... admit the hippies were SERIOUSLY wrong and get companies in to log those forests posthaste.
If they do, next year’s “fire season” might not be a season at all, but they will need to have had to admit the BS they’ve been promulgating since the late ‘60s is an absolute crock.
And, oh, how they hate admitting that.
Naw, for Democrats blackouts are resume’ enhancers.
I think Jerry Brown voted a legislative bill requiring PG&E to clear brush around power lines. I read that the Sierra Club sued them to keep them from chopping down trees.
“voted”= “vetoed.” Uh......
You would think they would change legislation back to how it was. I hear that PG&E is only allowed to clear some 4 to 5 feet away, and it was triple that in older times. Regulators were more concerned about lizards and rodents etc. than about safety around electric lines. Even homeowners were fined if they cleared too much around their properties.
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Davis was recalled for less.
Where’s the money going to come from to do that? Sacramento’s spending all the money on all the wrong things. Not the sensible things like clearing brush and upgrading infrastructure. It’s been like we have teenagers with Daddy’s credit card on a spending spree with the dems in charge.
The citizens who voted those corrupt cretins in will have to learn the hard way I guess. We already knew and voted against them and are very sad to see our state in such dire condition.
I challenge any "green bugs" to come after me!
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