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y33t | 11 months ago

Muni utilities get treated with kid's gloves by courts though. I have direct personal experience of a muni burning nearly a quarter million acres, destroying over 500 homes and ~100K acres of timber. When it came to trial, the court capped their liability at $50m on day one. Their employees even joked about what an outrageous fire hazard all their lines were over text just a few days before it happened.

The funniest part is the utility increased rates...but only for people living in the fire-affected areas.

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