Sofa King Smoooth
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I have a relatively small generator, about 4000 watts, but it will serve in times of need.
Texas
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TacoMac
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It's that and to protect union jobs. If the lines are run underground you can get rid of 80% of the unionized electrician workforce, trucks and related equipment that goes along with it.
Efficiency costs jobs. That's why we're the most inefficient nation on earth.
Wattzzup
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I don’t agree with that.
Here’s some more info on it. Drilling new lines in, having access to repair, etc. but here’s a main reason
Electricity wires are, by their nature, very warm, as they’re channeling currents to and fro. In the open air, this heat can dissipate, but deep in the soil it can’t. That’s why utilities wrapped their underground wires in plastic and surround them with a conduit like oil to keep things from overheating.
captainmorgan
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How are these people too stupid to turn the water off.
captainmorgan
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Maybe Texans think water shutoff valves are a way for big government to control people and don't install them, maga.
Wattzzup
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Maybe they can’t figure out which way to turn it?
Herb & Suds
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It isn't just Texas
Keep in mind we have people on here who have been without power for days in sub zero temperatures and there concern is two plants in a tent FFS
TacoMac
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Nearly 50% of Europe's power lines are underground. It's not hard at all to do.
In contrast to that, roughly 25% of ours are underground because we want to milk the taxpayers and customers out of billions of dollars per year in repair and maintenance fees.
Wattzzup
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It’s not hard but it would be expensive. Not worth the cost IMO.
TacoMac
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That's the entire point:
Is it worth the cost to maintain an aircraft engine every 2 weeks?
Well, no. It isn't. Fact is the majority of crashes are caused by pilot error or hydraulic failure, not engines.
So why bother?
So you don't get sued if it turns out to be the engine that fails.
Yet with power and water that keeps us alive, nobody cares because it's not worth the money.
Edit to add: if California's lines were buried, they wouldn't have half the fires that have cost countless billions of dollars of damage and loss of life.
But it's not worth the costs.
Wattzzup
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So we agree?
No one is going to pay to bury lines underground that are functioning perfectly fine above ground.
When they feel it is profitable, it will happen.
Sofa King Smoooth
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rkymtnman
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... while i sip margaritas in Cancun!!! they get what they voted for.
TacoMac
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No, we don't agree.
Fact is they're paying far more not to bury them in repair cost, lawsuits, damage to property and economy than it would have cost to bury them to begin with and never have that problem.
captainmorgan
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There are large areas of Texas where the bedrock is near the surface,tough digging.
that guy is such a piece of shit..where's your bullhorn now?
After blizzard of criticism over Mexico trip, Senator Ted Cruz flies back to frozen Texas
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz flew into a storm of criticism on Thursday after leaving his home state of Texas in the grip of a deadly deep freeze, for a family holiday jaunt to the Mexican resort of Cancun he said he took to please his young daughters. Cruz said he had planned to stay through the...www.yahoo.com
'Texans want answers and an apology'
yeah right.personally, they should be cut loose now..want succession..?
i feel not one thing for these people just the animals.
this is just a hoax it's really not cold there..i hope they're happy with local government and will remind them to NOT call Biden..in keeping with small government and all.
oh! and..don't mess with texas (we won't you're on your own
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