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Some on the left are advocating for it. It is currently more expensive, but fires can be worse. And, I was in the LA area and saw how they were digging up the street and drilling horizontally. New technologies could make it less expensive along with better insulation technologies. And, we would no longer need to worry about hurricanes and other weather related phenomena, or any fires started by overhead transmission failures.The fires burning in California are more expensive and we don't need any power outages. And, upgrading infrastructure stimulates our economy and enables greater efficiencies.Some on the left are advocating for upgrading our energy grid and placing some of it underground to help prevent future forest fires. Right wingers simply don't care if it is not about their short term Profit.I guess Gruesome Newsome likes power outages....pure 3rd world style living in the golden state....
These leftists idiots cant generate enough power to run air conditioners but want to add millions of electric vehicles to the grid. This type of stupidity has to be taught.
Got a link on that BS?
I know what it costs to run underground power 200 ft from the pole to my house. If you feel these idiot politicians will change overhead power to underground power, you're fricken dreaming.
So you don't have a link? Just smoking out your bullshit.
A new 138 kV overhead line costs approximately $390,000 per mile as opposed to $2 million per mile for underground (without the terminals).
Underground vs. Overhead: Power Line Installation-Cost Comparison and Mitigation - POWERGrid International
Add on 200,000 per mile for regular government incompetence and another 500,000 for California extra heavy duty incompetence and that's one expensive mile of underground.