Much of this Prager U video on why California wildfires are burning out of control will be familiar to you, but this succinct six minute overview does a good job of hitting the highlights.
Bonus Babylon Bee: “Nation Gets Preview Of Gavin Newsom Presidency.”
As the entire nation watched in horror at the devastation being unleashed on California by multiple wildfires, the American people were treated to a preview of what a Gavin Newsom presidency might look like.
As fires raged throughout Los Angeles and surrounding hills this week and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Gavin Newsom surveyed the fires as Americans saw firsthand what a Newsom presidency might look like.
“A flaming hellscape? Ok, good to know that’s what we’d have to look forward to,” North Dakota resident Mark Larsen said. “Add in rampant taxes, thousands of illegal aliens pouring across the border, and no prosecution for criminals? The country’s future has never looked brighter. Brighter because of fire.”
Many critics have linked the wildfires to Newsom’s governance, or lack thereof, and are grateful to know now what the entire country would look like if he were president. The governor was quick to defend his record.
“My results speak for themselves,” Newsom said to reporters. “And when I am president, I can assure every American that the United States will look exactly like California.”
Tags: 2028 Presidential Race, California, Democrats, environmentalism, Gavin Newsom, Pacific Gas & Electricity, Prager U, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, video, wildfire
“Why is California burning?”
Because it’s California.
PG&E may be regulated to death, but it is a private company, not government owned. Their shareholders are definitely gluttons for punishment.
Just a nit – PG&E serves mostly Northern California down to an irregular line roughly across the bottom third of Santa Barbara County, so a fair ways away from these fires. The utility down around LA is Southern California Edison, which is no paragon of operational excellence either.
So Cal Edison map at https://www.sce.com/regulatory/tariff-books/baseline-regions-map
Down here in the City of Los Angeles, we have the Department of Water and Power, which IS an city agency. The DEI hire they have heading the department is the highest paid person in the City government making twice of her predecessor who had one too many Y chromosome. The lack of water faced by the fire department is her responsibility. Oh, the LAFD is headed by 3 Kirsten, and it’s much more important that the responder looks more like the DEI target than actual capability, which would be racist and sexist.
Big fire: I wondered what that hole was over the City of LA itself in that baseline rate map I linked.
It does look like most of the hills are in SCEdison territory, including where the Eaton fire looks to have started, but it’s not clear whose region contains the place the Palisades fire appears to have started.
Either way the region is filled with 50 to 75+ year old creosote-soaked wooden poles and wires, just like most of PG&Es territory up north, all of which is more and more problematic as it all continues to bake in the hot summer sun year after year, and neither PG&E nor SCEd nor SMUD in Sacramento nor any other City utility has spent any money to upgrade, or especially (gasp) underground any of that infrastructure (PG&E finally has been doing some remote region undergrounding, at least for photos ops, since the Paradise fire).