Lawsuits against PG&E, one if not the largest power companies in the US, in regard to a potential spark that caused the California fires is informative. It's the definition of extortion or more like redistribution of wealth. So power lines running through poorly managed forests (Tree huggers) and desert landscape in California and caused the fires. So PG&E declares bankruptcy and is trying to get $5.5 billion in DIP funding to weather the storm. So claimants will get money and PG&E apply for rate increases to cover the costs. How about stop building homes in a tinder box. Who should I sue when my home is destroyed by the next hurricane since I built so close to the beach? What a system.
PG&E were not properly maintaining their Right-of-ways through wooded areas b/c it is expensive to do so. The money was instead going to its shareholders. This is what happens when we entrust private companies to watch out for the public good instead of the short-term good of its investors.
Get that from President Coulter or that Orange dude?
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Would push to build a community in fire danger areas, ecologically sensitive areas, on beach front property susceptible to ocean tides and storm then expect emergency money from the government for a catastrophe.
Only a slipshod company that refuses to take care of their infrastructure to pay off greedy investors would complain about not being responsible for their ineptness.
It might lead to constant brownouts... but the state would have immunity to lawsuits by rapacious plaintiffs attorneys.
takes over power market and prohibits moronic lawsuits.
Nothing to see here.
But then what would the plaintiffs bar do and how would the Dems compensate when that well dries up?
Link: http://www.medicaleconomics.com/practice-management/malpractice-do-other-countries-hold-key
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Only you would seek to find a corporation to blame. You don’t understand the term “Individual Responsibility”. You blame corporations or seek government support but never believes the individual is responsible. It’s the whole you didn’t build it shit. If the government didn’t build the roads to their houses these wackos wouldn’t live there. So I blame the state government who will insist that the public utility supplies power but hold them responsible. So if I live on the beach why should you give me anything if my house is destroyed. Right?
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how many are not? of those, how many want their property refinanced by insurance companies and of those, how many think it was the power companies fault?
I think like the Mexicans and the Muslims and the Chinese, you're willing to blame anyone who offends your knee-jerk reaction to issues.
No need to prove negligence. If a fire started because a line came down, PG&E are liable for damages. Which basically just means that all California power consumers are liable, since the only way for the damages to be covered is for the consumers to pay for them via their future electric bills.
get passed to consumers. So everybody wins.
Why do Republican Senators and Congressmen lobby like hell for FEMA flood giveaways in the Gulf states? Putting your house on a beach, or on an intercoastal waterway, is pure arrogance. You will be hit by a storm. You will be flooded. You will then seek a handout. Just stop. Move away and give that land back to Mother Nature.