Iiiiiiit’s happening! Let your district supervisor know you want a public utility in San Francisco! We can’t let another for-profit utility company raise our rates and put us in danger again. #powerforthepeoplehttps://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-bankruptcy-leads-San-Francisco-to-reconsider-13536619.php …
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...or not. Let the state take that on through a crazy funding method that will no doubt blow your mind: progressive taxation
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Climate change is a game that’s a different level. There are 125,000 miles of power lines in the PG&E system. It is $3M a mile to underground lines, $4-5M in urban areas. It is $5-6K per tree to take out a mature tree in an urban area, more in a rural area bc of access.
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That’s one of the great things about a utility that answers to the state instead of to shareholders; it can prioritize serving people over cutting costs
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I’m non-attached to whatever ownership (public/investor/broken up) structure. I just am stressing that public ownership doesn’t mean we don’t have formidable, expensive and existential costs and questions about where we can service & I don’t want rural Californians left behind.
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Or one could do the politically impossible task of arguing that people shouldn’t live in those areas bc it’s financially impossible to serve electricity there, and then you’d have to massively densify the more fire resistant parts of the state.
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dammit you beat me to where I was going to get to "isn't that what a ton of upzoning advocates are saying needs to happen?"
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