Re:A petition to take PG&E to public ownership
by moltensodium on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:42PM
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The argument that it is simply too dangerous to provide electricity when it is hot and windy is just so bizarre. What was the point of building all that infrastructure if you built it so poorly it keeps killing people?
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Re:A petition to take PG&E to public ownership
by CharlesColeman on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:50PM
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> What was the point of building all that infrastructure if you built it so poorly it keeps killing people?
The decision makers may not have fully understood the danger when they built it, or they did and judged that someone else would end up taking the blame and cleaning up the mess.