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I’ll note that as temperatures have risen, fires spread much faster
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Considering the utilities refuse to take responsibility for the fires they cause and also refuse to prevent those fires by maintaining their equipment… fuck 'em.
It’s time for either regulation or state-owned utilities. Corporations have proven they aren’t able to safely provide utility services.
The insurance challenges are now making it more expensive and difficult for some utilities to attract the capital required to harden their grids
The grids they’ve been refusing to maintain or harden for decades, those grids? Given their past history, they wouldn’t be acting now unless there was pressure on them - they’d just be handing out another round of executive bonuses and stock dividends.
have they tried not starting wildfires?
That requires doing pretty much all the maintenance that has been deferred for decades (PG&E for example didn’t inspect power lines between their installation circa 1920 and when the cast-iron hooks holding up the wires wore through in 2018, causing the wires to fall and start a fire which took out a few towns
Is this that Free Market I’ve always heard about?
