To the editor: Be aware to California legislators: What occurred to Trump supporters in Congress can occur to you if you happen to permit vitality buyers to be protected against losses incurred as a result of the utilities didn’t keep their gear and brought about wildfires (“Utilities lobby for shield from wildfire costs,” Nov. 3).
We don’t protect buyers in different companies from losses because of poor administration of the corporate they invested in, so why ought to we permit utility firms to guard their buyers?
This lobbying effort is a recipe for extra catastrophe. If something, utilities needs to be threatened with a authorities takeover in the event that they don’t keep their gear.
Be taught from President Trump’s folly with the oil firms. He rolled again environmental legal guidelines to assist them, attacked different international locations to assist them, and now these firms are making billions from his selections by gouging us for fuel. In consequence, Republicans misplaced management as a result of we the individuals weighed in.
California legislators higher be taught that we the individuals — not the buyers — will decide their destiny.
Shirley Conley, Gardena
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To the editor: For-profit utilities care about one factor: cash, and the way a lot they’ll extract from prospects compelled to make use of their monopolistic service. These firms thrive on giant profit-driven dividends to shareholders whereas trying to disclaim duty and, when that fails, actively working to screw over their prospects by limiting funds for his or her malfeasance.
My emotions are enhanced by two issues on this article: First, Caroline Choi, Edison’s government vp of public coverage and company affairs, said, “Security is our primary precedence.” Second is the assertion, “the devastating hearth ignited when an out-of-service transmission line that Edison had not used since 1971 was briefly reenergized within the excessive winds.”
How on Earth can Choi make her quoted assertion when her firm had greater than 50 years to take away the road that began the hearth? To suppose the utilities deserve a cap on their incompetence is unimaginable.
Steve Saeta, Santa Rosa Valley
