California is getting so bad that even the major media are starting to report it. From Associated Press:
California faces fraught path out of wildfire, power crisis
The utility that serves more than 5 million electrical customers in one of the world’s most technologically advanced areas is now faced again and again with a no-win decision: risk starting catastrophic deadly wildfires, or turn off the lights and immiserate millions of paying customers.
Pacific Gas & Electric is in bankruptcy, facing $30 billion in liabilities, billions more in needed upgrades to its system and an uncertain path to safely providing reliable power to a vast portion of California.
How that came to be is a story not of a single villain but of systemic failure by the utility’s management, the regulators who oversee it and the politicians who let it all happen. It’s a story of climate change, a housing crisis and an aging power system that, like much of the infrastructure in the U.S., has fallen into disrepair.
Actually, it is a single villain - the unelected bureaucrats who are not held accountable for their poor decisions. They are blowing the available money on shiny "cool" projects and not spending it on maintaining the infrastructure. Alternative Energy or clearing the power lines? alt.energy gets the nod every single time.
This is what years of government by narrative will get you. Don't get me started on their cities.
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