Luckily they have just a little less than 8 years to upgrade & expand the capacity of the electric grid before they outlaw new gasoline-powered vehicles in California. I’m sure they’ll be ready…
>”Most products and services that I use in my life have actually gotten better over 20 years, not worse,” said Craig Harrison, a member of the Bennett Valley Community Association, to kick off the meeting. “Without a reliable supply of electricity, our homes can quickly become uninhabitable. No electricity means no computer, no Wi-Fi, your refrigerator doesn’t work.”
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>“No water,” people in the audience called out, a reference to the fact that many rely on well pumps that don’t work without electricity.
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>“Life gets very primitive,” Harrison said.
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>“There’s no doubt if I was in this room as a customer today, I would not be satisfied,” Ron Richardson, PG&E’s North Coast Region vice president, said to the crowd. “But there are nuances to the situation that you just can’t understand. It isn’t fair to blame the company or its executives for some minor inconveniences. That just makes us think that you don’t deserve to have these in-person meetings.”
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>Flanked by poster boards detailing the area’s electric grid, planned improvements and customer resources, they talked through the context and causes behind what they acknowledged was unacceptable service, described solutions in the works, pointed out the fact that the previous paragraph was selectively edited (but that almost nobody would notice, given that very few people actually read beyond headlines), and took questions from the eager audience.
peter-doubt says
We’ve never had problems …. here
*Oops*
Position_Extreme says
Luckily they have just a little less than 8 years to upgrade & expand the capacity of the electric grid before they outlaw new gasoline-powered vehicles in California. I’m sure they’ll be ready…
Unfair_Builder4967 says
Priceless
RamsesThePigeon says
From the article:
>”Most products and services that I use in my life have actually gotten better over 20 years, not worse,” said Craig Harrison, a member of the Bennett Valley Community Association, to kick off the meeting. “Without a reliable supply of electricity, our homes can quickly become uninhabitable. No electricity means no computer, no Wi-Fi, your refrigerator doesn’t work.”
>
>“No water,” people in the audience called out, a reference to the fact that many rely on well pumps that don’t work without electricity.
>
>“Life gets very primitive,” Harrison said.
>
>“There’s no doubt if I was in this room as a customer today, I would not be satisfied,” Ron Richardson, PG&E’s North Coast Region vice president, said to the crowd. “But there are nuances to the situation that you just can’t understand. It isn’t fair to blame the company or its executives for some minor inconveniences. That just makes us think that you don’t deserve to have these in-person meetings.”
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>Flanked by poster boards detailing the area’s electric grid, planned improvements and customer resources, they talked through the context and causes behind what they acknowledged was unacceptable service, described solutions in the works, pointed out the fact that the previous paragraph was selectively edited (but that almost nobody would notice, given that very few people actually read beyond headlines), and took questions from the eager audience.
Verneti says
Sandhu dorikinapudalla dhummu dhuluputunav sivaji…