🧵 For the last 40 hours there has been no power in my home due to a winter storm. I live in San Mateo County: a very wealthy county but I live in its poorest community. If the future is electric what does this say about our future?
@GavinNewsom @AlexPadilla4CA @SenFeinstein @RepAnnaEshoo @JoshBeckerSV you all know that climate change is pushing electricity as the solution and an all electric future is a horror show with this electrical infrastructure.
The power company has given no public estimate of when power will be restored, and remind us that the neighboring cities have no power either. What the neighboring cities do have that EPA doesn’t is wealth, and access to credit.
I have no: lights, heat (gas furnace- fan and thermostat are electric), heat pump, internet, home hub, smart devices, ignition on my gas stove, microwave or electric oven, and am watching about $750 in fresh and frozen goods spoil. Oh, and batteries are expensive as hell.
My security and defense are shredded with no power. Ring needs a power. My home hub and other security devices don’t work. Thank good my electric front lock has a battery. I don’t know if I know where the key is.
And good lord, what I had an EV? If you make this about a windstorm you miss the big picture. Our electrical infrastructure is fragile and we increasingly rely on it. The power company is moved by the complainants of our wealthy neighbors,
none of whom would blanch at a lost freezer of food, unlike a family in EPA where that kind of loss pushes you into food insecurity. As a quasi public institution power companies should have to think about the economic impact to the residents as they prepare their restoration
plans. EPA because of the low income and the devastation of unplanned loss should be first or near the top and Atherton should be near the bottom. They can afford to wait. But as a matter of public policy why does this dystopian hunger games on the power grid happen?
It happens when our elected officials set forward an incomplete plan. We can’t possibly have a bright electric future with criminal companies like @PGE4Me putting profits over people and wealth over the dignity of a warm: home, bath or shower and meal for the working class.
I have yet to see a public plan designed to ensure that an all electric future is possible for all Americans to have warm homes, the ability to make meals and take baths while powering their cars, irrespective of income. I fully embraced the electric future without fully grasping
that if it is based upon the current electrical infrastructure and cost structure the rich might like it but it will suck for everyone else. #ElectricityShutDown #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis
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