If the maintenance program would have kept up, this wouldn’t be happening! The grid system in America needs dire attention! But never have funds to maintain….HMMMM but there’s always millions 4 weekend golf trips and security details for the whole family….=~\
PG&E has been cutting a fat hog (rather than their rights-of-way) for decades and getting away with it. Now they’ve been found out, and this power cutoff Kabuki performance is to prove how important they are and that no one should tell them what to do. If they want to keep their business and restore it to profitability, they need to CLEAR THEIR RIGHTS-OF-WAY pronto. If they’d been doing it all along instead of overpaying executives (or wherever that money was spent), it would not be a problem right now and the people who died in fires they caused would still be alive.
Dtroutma over 4 years ago
If PG & E just did proper maintenance on the rights of way, wouldn’t be a problem, but it is Pacific Gas and Excrement.
kaffekup over 4 years ago
What did they have, like a week to get a claim in?
DaBoogadie over 4 years ago
They said “burying the transmission lines is to expensive”. Millions…they said.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 4 years ago
This.. will prove to be an interesting experiment.. and a sign of what will be should America be engaged in an “electronic” war.
Zebrastripes over 4 years ago
If the maintenance program would have kept up, this wouldn’t be happening! The grid system in America needs dire attention! But never have funds to maintain….HMMMM but there’s always millions 4 weekend golf trips and security details for the whole family….=~\
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
Paying stockholders and bonus payments for management instead of cutting down trees was their first mistake.
casonia2 over 4 years ago
PG&E has been cutting a fat hog (rather than their rights-of-way) for decades and getting away with it. Now they’ve been found out, and this power cutoff Kabuki performance is to prove how important they are and that no one should tell them what to do. If they want to keep their business and restore it to profitability, they need to CLEAR THEIR RIGHTS-OF-WAY pronto. If they’d been doing it all along instead of overpaying executives (or wherever that money was spent), it would not be a problem right now and the people who died in fires they caused would still be alive.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
We all need to give thanks to Michael Peavey and Jerry Brown.
Walter Kocker Premium Member over 4 years ago
Where is Erin Brockovich now, when we need her?
She’s the only one that makes PG&E executives P in their knickers.
I remember, you could pay your bill with Pigs, Greed, and Extortion as the payee and it would be cashed . . .
guyjen2004 Premium Member over 4 years ago
CA is a mess in so many ways.