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I can't help thinking - what makes one suppose that California politicians would do a better job managing PG&E than whoever is doing it now who has been working
by smsm42 7y ago
I can't help thinking - what makes one suppose that California politicians would do a better job managing PG&E than whoever is doing it now who has been working under the aegis and in the full cooperation with the same California politicians as a monopoly sanctioned by those same politicians?
- kevingadd 7y agoWe have some successful non-private power companies in the state, so another power company modeled on them at least has the possibility of working out. The private approach has not worked for PG&E so far, we need to attempt fixes. If you have better ideas for how to fix PG&E you should contact your representatives or perhaps start a ballot initiative.
- smsm42 7y agoPolitician's fallacy: "we have to do something, this is something, so we have to do this". I don't see any argument so far why nationalizing PG&E is going to improve anything. It's already heavily regulated. Same bad decisions PG&E management took would be taken by State PG&E management for the same reasons. > If you have better ideas for how to fix PG&E you should contact your representatives or perhaps start a ballot initiative. This is another fallacy, for which I don't have a name. It goes like this: I assume my solution fixes the problem. In order to be allowed to poke holes in my solution, you must present another solution that you can prove fixes the problem, or your criticism is invalid.