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I’ll note that as temperatures have risen, fires spread much faster
The insurance challenges are now making it more expensive and difficult for some utilities to attract the capital required to harden their grids
The grids they’ve been refusing to maintain or harden for decades, those grids? Given their past history, they wouldn’t be acting now unless there was pressure on them - they’d just be handing out another round of executive bonuses and stock dividends.
Is this that Free Market I’ve always heard about?
It certainly is. And locally owned and operated production is communism
points and screeches
This warms my heart to see corporations and not just us lowly serfs feeling the pain of man made climate change.
Welcome to the party, pal!
have they tried not starting wildfires?
That requires doing pretty much all the maintenance that has been deferred for decades (PG&E for example didn’t inspect power lines between their installation circa 1920 and when the cast-iron hooks holding up the wires wore through in 2018, causing the wires to fall and start a fire which took out a few towns
That’s fucked up
Instructions unclear, increased lobbyist funding for deregulation
That doesn’t sound very profitable
Considering the utilities refuse to take responsibility for the fires they cause and also refuse to prevent those fires by maintaining their equipment… fuck 'em.
It’s time for either regulation or state-owned utilities. Corporations have proven they aren’t able to safely provide utility services.