I want to see the maggats who get funding from putin try to dance around this. We would be obligated to step in and they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

Yeah, it was showing that there was 9 comments but I couldn't see any. Its probably the instance this account is using.

Now I see a few comments

I see it.

I'm in Duke energy territory and the past few years they have been really getting their act together. It doesn't make it better than a coop model but they have been extremely proactive about clearing trees and anything else that would interfere with the lines as well as adding new capacity to the existing lines, adding/upgrading/replacing poles that are holding more weight than they should, etc.

I meant to mention in another comment that I was utility locate tech for a couple of years so in addition to my standard geek creds, I have a deeper understanding of this and see it from a different angle than the average citizen.

Personally we are planning on getting some solar panels installed hopefully this year or early next year, that along with a large enough battery and a v2h adapter (when it becomes an option for my car) will make us virtually immune to outages.

That isn't over construction, that's under production of electricity. My city has a literal fuck ton of manufacturing all over and we have no rolling black outs and very little outages even with most of the lines above ground. We do get our power from a nuclear plant so that definitely helps.

A lot of these energy issues are hyper local. Texas for example is the worst in the country for maintenance, price, outages, etc and it's not solely because of the weather.

It is extremely expensive and arduous to bury lines that have been aerial for decades. The cost to bury existing lines is exponentially greater than the cost to keep fixing them as needed for decades. New lines are sometimes buried depending on whether it's an upgrade to existing infrastructure, power going to a new neighborhood, etc.

Do yourself a favor and look into exactly what it would take just to get approval from the city, county, etc and right of way from the various owners of land where you want to bury them. Not to mention the hell that would cause for traffic when you have to shut down roads to go under them or worst case tear them up and replace them.

I am not giving the utility companies a pass here but it's not as easy as some people seem to think it is.

So anyway, I started blasting....

None of this is accurate at all.

Work harder at your fake news and bullshit.

For those who may not know, we have gun regulations because the black panthers started carrying and some people (I'll let you guess who) didn't like it that black folks were carrying weapons.

Yes, this is a big fucking deal.

And to clarify here. Biden is declining because we all do at that age. No one is immune to that. Trump is declining because he has abused who knows how many different drugs and fuck knows what else over the decades, add that history to age and it's never going to be good. Biden has always had a stutter and while I know you didn't mention it, it's been used a bully stick by the maggats seemingly unaware of the fact that their guy has been deranged and unable to stay on topic for years.

This is the difference between the two sides.

The right thinks that the rules don't apply to them.

The left takes even the smallest infractions way more seriously than they need to. I'm still pissed off about Franken. Pretty sure Biden didn't do a damn thing to protect his son aside from just being his father as most good parents would do regardless of their innocence or guilt.

I've seen others suggest that it gets surrendered to the public domain if they take the deduction. I'd be fine with that.