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The state should (i.e. probably will not) counter by throwing a few of their execs in jail for their role in starting fires due to failure to maintain their stuff aka gross negligence.

But the houses were built next to this tinderbox. They were going to burn eventually.

That. Is that really case? I mean honestly. I really suspect that a large part of the problem is the desire for people to have a house in the woods but I'm unclear as to how you could quantify that suspicion. Or who has.

The fact that they burned is proof. As t -> infinity, the probability of a wildfire approaches 1, even without electricity.

A lot of people don't know about when they wanted to double rates a few years ago and were getting a huge backlash, they just starting turning off the power in "rolling blackouts" just because they were mad. After about a week all the anti rate increase talk stopped and the rates doubled and everyone just forgot about it. They are horrid people.

This is the end game^

This of course can't end poorly as the second such a bill is passed, all incentive to maintain equipment goes out the window.

Yep. That's what they do.