Concerning the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina on Maui and killed perhaps 1000, the Daily Wire reports as follows.
Hawaii Utility Pursued Green Energy Goals While Fire Mitigation Projects Were Delayed
Sadly, this is no new thing. The so-called “Camp” fire that destroyed the town of Paradise CA, and killed, if memory serves, 89 people, was caused by badly maintained Pacific Gas & Electric equipment sparking in a forest along the Feather River.
Like Hawaii Electric, PG&E was being pressured by government and environmental groups to spend big on green energy. It was money hindsight shows should have gone to maintenance of their existing infrastructure.
In both cases, the policy was wrong and, as a direct result, substantial numbers of people died when there was no good reason. How many times do we have to repeat this awful scenario before action is taken to reverse the wrong policies?
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The Camp fire came within 8 feet of our winter home in CA. We only lost some landscaping. A couple of years later we sold that property and moved our winter quarters to eastern Nevada.
We moved not because of fire risk, however, but because beautiful CA is currently misgoverned by idiots and has no realistic prospect of coming to its senses anytime in the next decade or two.
