‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room

Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by whatshisface on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:35PM (#21236032)

How did president Regan privatize a California utility?

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by dredmorbius on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:03PM (#21236974)

PG&E was never a public utility.

I suspect the harm meant was more of the general form of "government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem".

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by listenallyall on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:56PM (#21242529)

Except that poster wanted the utility to be taken over by the government. Thus the comment was in favor of increasing government.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by dredmorbius on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:01AM (#21246314)

Which could well be a good thing. Reagan's dictum is often invoked to mindlessly reject any such possibility.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by pjc50 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:51PM (#21236156)

Reagan was governor of California at one point in the 70s.

However, I'm not clear whether PG&E was ever actually nationalised?

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by red-indian on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:52PM (#21237750)

1967 and 1971.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by Dobbs on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:38PM (#21236057)

Not sure I’m this particular case but I’m going to go with Reagan did it when he was California’s Governor.

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Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by masonic on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:52AM (#21239088)

You're going to "go with" something... that never happened?

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