The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is the only utility company available in North California. It’s nice having one centralized utility company for gas and electricity, but it seems to be getting to be a bit much for those working for PG&E. In the past few years there have been thousands of wildfires and for the bigger of such the root cause has been PG&E, or rather the lack of maintenance done by PG&E.



Every year we’re losing more and more precious lives, among countless injuries, and hundreds of homes. People’s lives are being ruined at an alarming rate because a money-hungry corporation won’t spend the capital to properly maintain their own power grid.

My point being, PG&E has turned into a company that is no longer willing to spend for the safety of their customers. They went from a company you could count on, to who they are now; a company that doesn’t bother showing up within the 48 hour window to mark your gas lines. The way things are headed, another situation like the San Bruno Pipeline Explosion of 2010 is right around the corner. On the date of the explosion; 8 people died, 58 more were left with injuries, and it destroyed 38 houses. The thing is though, is that PG&E was made aware from a state inspector that this particular stretch of piping was unsafe a year prior to the explosion. PG&E was aware of the potential dangers with the risk they were taking to save money, and ultimately it was gross negligence and frugal behaviors from a company that allowed 8 people to lose their lives.



Don’t wait for them to do something like this again, let’s have them demonopolize. Then and only then might a utility company actually listen to their customers more and more importantly they might follow safety rules and regulations and be better equip to maintain their grids.