Fundies adrift over Pacific Gas & Electric's donation to No on 8

I love this.

They want privitazation of everything and then complain when a particular private company doesn't act in their own interest.

Oh, the irony.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

I've got a bit of an insider's view on this.  When I moved here I transferred from the Viacom Cablevision Seattle office to the Viacom Marin county office.  My day to day job involved climbing power poles.  When I got here I was flabbergasted by the poor condition most of the PG&E plant (poles and related equipment) was in, and even more so by the frequency and sizes of power outages.  The vast majority of PG&E's poles would have been replaced long ago by Seattle City Light or the other major power company in Washington State, then known as Puget Power.  The same holds true for the actual wires, tranformers and switches.  Where the Washington power providers kept their equipment in good to excellent shape so that their customers could depend on a reliable source of electrical power, PG&E takes the opposite tack, replacing nothing until it actually fails and plunges its customers, including homes, businesses and hospitals into the dark.

Remember, "Erin Brockovich" is a true movie.  If you haven't seen it, or forgotten it, watch it.

Just remember that while PG&E is spending a few dollars on a donation to the No on 8 campaign, they are at the same time spending millions to bat back a ballot initiative that would mandate that the City of San Francisco dump PG&E and create a taxpayer based electric utility similar to Seattle's City Light.  It is an initiative that makes the ballot on a regular bases here, and one that, thanks to PG&E's millions of dollars spent refuting it each time, always loses.

Someday enough folks who have lived somewhere that offers a competent, well run utility will be in the majority here, and will send these greedy bastards packing.  In the meantime over at PG&E headquarters they are still cracking up about Grandma Tillie sitting in the dark.  

I was without power for a week the last time. And, this happens three or four times a year here.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

So yeah, glad they made the donation and that it's pissed the fundies off--but I'm also glad I don't have to use their services.

I am also a firm believer in municipal and public ownership of water and energy (and hopefully internet) providers.

- Abraham Lincoln.

That song is great! "Are You Ready" for a change?