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My guess is the ultimate end game is to get the state to pass a law shielding them from liability if they do start another. "Shield us from liability and we wil
by tssva 7y ago
My guess is the ultimate end game is to get the state to pass a law shielding them from liability if they do start another. "Shield us from liability and we will stop the blackouts."
- huntermeyer 7y agoYep. That's what they do.
- AWildC182 7y agoThis is the end game^ This of course can't end poorly as the second such a bill is passed, all incentive to maintain equipment goes out the window.
- rndgermandude 7y agoThe state should (i.e. probably will not) counter by throwing a few of their execs in jail for their role in starting fires due to failure to maintain their stuff aka gross negligence.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoBut the houses were built next to this tinderbox. They were going to burn eventually.
- hackeraccount 7y agoThat. Is that really case? I mean honestly. I really suspect that a large part of the problem is the desire for people to have a house in the woods but I'm unclear as to how you could quantify that suspicion. Or who has.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThe fact that they burned is proof. As t -> infinity, the probability of a wildfire approaches 1, even without electricity.
- Data_Junkie 7y agoA lot of people don't know about when they wanted to double rates a few years ago and were getting a huge backlash, they just starting turning off the power in "rolling blackouts" just because they were mad. After about a week all the anti rate increase talk stopped and the rates doubled and everyone just forgot about it. They are horrid people.