[cucumber3732842]

But it's a circular problem. The price wouldn't be exorbitant if these rural areas were left to their own devices. But their utility build outs must be done per rules passed at the behest of the richer urban areas.

We're dealing with this bullshit in my own city in another state. From the parks to the roads to the sidewalks to the library every goddamn thing we touch gets driven up to the point of "can't actually do what we wanted" in cost because some rich assholes 100mi away in the vicinity of the capitol have taken a "build it fancy and rich or don't build it at all" attitude and enshrined that in state law and rules.

Sometimes they'll be so kind as to eat part of the cost with state grants, as long as we sell our freedom away in other ways.

[avidiax]

Rural power was always expensive, but now due to wildfire risk, it needs to be ruinously expensive. It's not for the benefit of the cities, and driven by corporate risk management.

[cucumber3732842]

>Rural power was always expensive,

But not ruinously so? What changed? The rules (both public and private).

> It's not for the benefit of the cities, and driven by corporate risk management.

Which is driven by laws and courts and precedents and best practices and recommendations and beurocratic rules that come from where?

Regardless this has nothing to do with city and everything to do with rich and out of touch.

I'm sure PG&E would be happy to build worse stuff if they weren't sticking their neck out by doing so.

Kind of like how my city would be happy to simply replace it's infrastructure but the state will take a bunch of money away elsewhere if we did that. Of course, if we weren't paying the state taxes we could afford it from scratch ourselves but I digress.

[Izkata]

Time. In addition to degrading infrastructure, bad forest management making the wildfires worse than they should be: https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-better-approach-to-forest-man...