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Image if electricity or landline phones were invented today. Rural electrification would never have happened.

(Similarly, if the web browser was invented today, it would never have made it into an app store)

I know some people that are building a house in a rural area. Nearest electricity is less than a quarter mile away. PG&E quoted them $100,000 to bring in power. They're going solar.

and we’re all better off for it, including PG&E, who doesn’t have to transmission lines over more (un)maintained wilderness, which is where many of the fires come from in the first place.

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