40,000,000 CA Residents chip in $100 (a drop in the bucket compared to wildfire damage) $4,000,000,000. Done. Stop complaining about your profit margin being smaller when you already have made Billions from CA. And don’t pretend you won’t add this to the bills of the CA residents whos homes you destroyed because of neglect.
PG&E only serves about half of the state of CA. But, even if you charged all 40 million residents of CA (every man, woman and child) that would be $3,750 each person to make up the $150 Billion for the first year alone. There are only about 13 million residences in CA and if each one chipped in to pay for these services it would be $11,538 each household. The numbers are just unrealistic. If forced to comply the first thing PG&E would need to do is cut the power to every location that had any brush exposure until the land owners (state, city or privately held) brought the property into compliance. You can’t even get people to clear the space around their houses, how will you get them to do this? There would be major pockets without power for months.
Seems like a lot of money for raking the forest.
WWFD
40,000,000 CA Residents chip in $100 (a drop in the bucket compared to wildfire damage) $4,000,000,000. Done. Stop complaining about your profit margin being smaller when you already have made Billions from CA. And don’t pretend you won’t add this to the bills of the CA residents whos homes you destroyed because of neglect.
PG&E only serves about half of the state of CA. But, even if you charged all 40 million residents of CA (every man, woman and child) that would be $3,750 each person to make up the $150 Billion for the first year alone. There are only about 13 million residences in CA and if each one chipped in to pay for these services it would be $11,538 each household. The numbers are just unrealistic. If forced to comply the first thing PG&E would need to do is cut the power to every location that had any brush exposure until the land owners (state, city or privately held) brought the property into compliance. You can’t even get people to clear the space around their houses, how will you get them to do this? There would be major pockets without power for months.
California politicians are in a race with politicians in NY, IL, MA, CT, … to see which state can ‘run out of other people’s money’ first.