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	<title>Comments on: Americans, Including Solar-Powered Americans, Grade Their Utilities (Infographic)</title>
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		<title>By: Jon_K</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In baseball, the sports writers vote for the Hall of Fame. We need something like that because, I submit, we the people got it pretty wrong.

Take for example Pacific Gas and Electric which got C for general happiness and a C for commitment to green technologies.  Should be more like F/B. 

The utility is killing people, for heaven&#039;s sakes. It scrimped on gas line inspection, upgrade and safety measures resulting in an explosion and fire that wiped out a neighborhood and killed eight people in 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion. There have been other explosions since then including one in Cupertino. Pure negligence. If that isn&#039;t an F, what is?

On the other hand PG&amp;E has had solar incentives for many years resulting in one of the biggest uptakes of residential solar and now utility scale solar in the country. It took a boot in the rear from the Public Utilities Commission to do this, so just a B.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In baseball, the sports writers vote for the Hall of Fame. We need something like that because, I submit, we the people got it pretty wrong.</p>
<p>Take for example Pacific Gas and Electric which got C for general happiness and a C for commitment to green technologies.  Should be more like F/B. </p>
<p>The utility is killing people, for heaven&#8217;s sakes. It scrimped on gas line inspection, upgrade and safety measures resulting in an explosion and fire that wiped out a neighborhood and killed eight people in 2010: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion</a>. There have been other explosions since then including one in Cupertino. Pure negligence. If that isn&#8217;t an F, what is?</p>
<p>On the other hand PG&amp;E has had solar incentives for many years resulting in one of the biggest uptakes of residential solar and now utility scale solar in the country. It took a boot in the rear from the Public Utilities Commission to do this, so just a B.</p>
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