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We do harden our grid for example, our grid infrastructure. make sure that we have the ability to prevent these, you know, the fact that you see this transmission tower go across the mississippi river and that all of our transmission wires and distribution wires are on wooden poles. i mean in some areas we should be burying those wires so we don t end up doing this again. so the bottom line is we have to build back better and we have to make sure that we address climate change so that we don t continue to see this exacerbated every single year. yeah. on that overlooking of those power lines, there s an interesting piece in the times about why katrina didn t bury why new orleans didn t bury power lines after katrina. one of the big things that comes up is it s expensive. it s really expensive. yeah. that s been the that has been the we saw the $16 billion that got spent on the levies that appears to have worked in this case, but it is ....
Fact that you see this transmission tower, go across the mississippi, river and that all of our transmission wires and distribution wires around wooden poles. in some areas, we should be burying that, those wires, we should be burying, it s so we don t the end of doing this again. the bottom line is, we have to build back better, and we have to make sure that we address climate change, so that we do not continue to exceed this exasperated every single year. on that, we re looking at those powerlines, there s an interesting piece in the times today about why the new orleans didn t very parlance, after, katrina and one of the big things that comes up and all this stuff is expensive. it s really expensive, that s been, we saw the 16 billion dollars that guy spent on the levees, that appears to have worked in this case, but it is going to take money to do this, stuff and that s what it all comes down to, the investments are costly. that s why the president ....
More liabilities, you guys can turn off the power preemptively. well, we don t know for certain but it seems like even though pg&e did do a blackout in sew sa county, it failed to turn off the transmission wires and that seems to have perhaps caused the latest fire. paul: is newsom correct to blame pg&e for all of this because pg&e is a public utility. it s a wholly owned subsidiary of sacramento. it s regulated by the state public utility commission which oversees the safety. the problem is, it hasn t focused on safety. it focused on renewable and green energy and imposed various mandates, renewable energy mandates, 60% by 2030, forced it to provide solar subsidies to customers and installed electric car charging stations. paul: your argument is that s ....