Power outage in most of San Francisco, including traffic lights.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Power outage in most of San Francisco, including traffic lights. Autonomous cars going nuts. I shall stay home (in the dark) in case I get run over by a Waymo.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

I paid $200 for electricity and gas yesterday. We don’t use the dryer or heater. I never thought I could hate a power company, mainly because I’ve never had to think about power companies, but I hate PG&E.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte do not worry! everyone hates PG&E!!!!!

I wish the state gvt would take them over.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@draNgNon @skinnylatte

If I recall correctly, when PG&E was partially privatized, which is to say badly, not that I think it should’ve ever been privatized, it was split into two divisions.

One division does all the power generation and the other division handles distribution.

The set up is similar to how private equity does this sort of thing all the maintenance in debt is pushed onto the distribution side and the assholes in the generation side line in their pockets