Just a Little Accident- Nothing to Notice Here
It's a slow news day, so I would like to turn my attention to this:
No, that's not a scene from some movie about Hell. It's what's left of an American neighborhood.
A few days ago, after three weeks or so of residents complaining about leaking gas without any response, a PG&E gas main exploded here. The gas main was built in 1948.
PG&E has plenty of money to spend on lots of things:
"Since 2000, PG&E Corp., the parent company of PG&E Co., has spent more than $112 million on federally reportable lobbying efforts
During the first six months of the year, PG&E put unprecedented capital into lobbying efforts, reporting to the federal government that it’s so far spent nearly$44 million. Such a figure...marks an industry-wide record for electric and utilities companies."
Apparently, however, they don't have any money to maintain the potentially lethal infrastructure that allows them to grow rich. I'm not going to rail away about the callous greed that caused this accident, but I would like to point out some lessons that should be learned from this "accident," but won't be:
1. The next time I hear some right wing jackass saying how private enterprise does everything better than the Government, I intend to shove his head into this pool of mud.
2. The next time I hear some right wing jackass railing against Obama's efforts to spend federal money on repairing this country's ailing infrastructure, I'm going to rub this picture in his face until all the ink comes off, and then make him eat it.
3. The next time I hear some right wing jackass screaming about doing away with government regulation of "private enterprise," I intend to force him to live on top of a leaking PG&E gas main, and see how he feels about the company spending money to fight competition, rather than on seeing to it that its facilities are safe.
Let me point out that, as of today, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's greed has claimed more U. S. civilian deaths than Arab terrorists have in nine years. Without a credible threat from the government to make them pay for their indifference to our safety, people like this (i.e. the sociopathic rich) will continue to damage us every day. It is long past time to show them that if they are unconcerned about our welfare, we are going to show no concern for theirs.
No, that's not a scene from some movie about Hell. It's what's left of an American neighborhood.
A few days ago, after three weeks or so of residents complaining about leaking gas without any response, a PG&E gas main exploded here. The gas main was built in 1948.
PG&E has plenty of money to spend on lots of things:
"Since 2000, PG&E Corp., the parent company of PG&E Co., has spent more than $112 million on federally reportable lobbying efforts
During the first six months of the year, PG&E put unprecedented capital into lobbying efforts, reporting to the federal government that it’s so far spent nearly$44 million. Such a figure...marks an industry-wide record for electric and utilities companies."
Apparently, however, they don't have any money to maintain the potentially lethal infrastructure that allows them to grow rich. I'm not going to rail away about the callous greed that caused this accident, but I would like to point out some lessons that should be learned from this "accident," but won't be:
1. The next time I hear some right wing jackass saying how private enterprise does everything better than the Government, I intend to shove his head into this pool of mud.
2. The next time I hear some right wing jackass railing against Obama's efforts to spend federal money on repairing this country's ailing infrastructure, I'm going to rub this picture in his face until all the ink comes off, and then make him eat it.
3. The next time I hear some right wing jackass screaming about doing away with government regulation of "private enterprise," I intend to force him to live on top of a leaking PG&E gas main, and see how he feels about the company spending money to fight competition, rather than on seeing to it that its facilities are safe.
Let me point out that, as of today, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's greed has claimed more U. S. civilian deaths than Arab terrorists have in nine years. Without a credible threat from the government to make them pay for their indifference to our safety, people like this (i.e. the sociopathic rich) will continue to damage us every day. It is long past time to show them that if they are unconcerned about our welfare, we are going to show no concern for theirs.
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