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1SG Civil Affairs Specialist
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There is always the search for someone to blame, but if we are going to find a culprit, I submit for you California's draconian attempts to regulate out of existence the utilities that power their success. While Cali raises taxes left and right, when PG&E (electric utility) came looking for rate hikes in order to support the power generation and transmission infrastructure that California law required, the state said no. As a result, existing power lines have decayed as PG&E pours what resources it has into building green power generation and transmission lines, fighting CA regulations the whole way. Now when the Santa Ana winds inevitably blow (not due to climate change) downed lines start fires.

It is also a red herring to talk about who owns forest land. That is not where the majority of these fires are happening. Rather, they are sparking up in the scrubland in the hills.

Saw a great story last night about how Oakland filed in court suing Exxon/Mobil for future damages due to climate change, then filed within days for municipal bonding downplaying the likelihood of damage to city property as "uncertainty".
It is always someone else's fault. In a state where there in next to no opposition party, accountability is pretty much unheard of.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
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You ridicule Harris, but it was Trump that said "rake the forest, like Finland."
Many sources, here is one:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/11/19/trump-finland-forest-raking/ [login to see] /
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MSgt Michael Bischoff
MSgt Michael Bischoff
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Blind to facts in defense of this guy!
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MCPO Roger Collins
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Here is the problem, the cost of caring for all the land grabs, and it doesn’t include land confiscated by state and local authorities.

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The federal government owns about 46 million acres in the state, or 46 percent of California's total acreage, according to the Congressional Research Service, and Shubb's decision could allow it to sell more federal land there”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1N72EL
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