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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by inferiorhuman on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:02AM (#35611267)
Oh if we're talking the rest of California… it's less of a service outage and more like a mass evacuation (8,000+ families). Then again I'd say regular leaks, fires, and explosions do not a reliable delivery system make.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-27/so-cal-g...

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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by refurb on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:21AM (#35611701)
We’re not talking mass evacuation were talking outage.

But anyways, how many people died from the wildfires started by power lines?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/22/pge-power-l...

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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by emodendroket on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:52PM (#35616535)
If you’re having a mass evacuation you can’t very well use your appliances. What’s the point of this nitpick?
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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by refurb on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:50PM (#35622714)
I never brought up mass evacuations?

But just pointing out gas and electric both cause them?

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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by inferiorhuman on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:17PM (#35622989)
Not to the same degree they don't. Evacuations due to safety issues and service disruptions with gas are common. Evacuations due to safety issues with electrical service are not.
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Re:Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new c... by inferiorhuman on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:26PM (#35621291) 

  But anyways, how many people died from the wildfires started by power lines?
Certainly fewer than succumb to natural gas related causes. Nationwide somewhere around 15 people die annually from pipeline related incidents, over 400 from carbon monoxide poisoning.

California's got a long history of safety problems with natural gas:

https://la.curbed.com/2016/3/8/11181374/gas-leaks-los-angele...

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