Letter: PG&E ratepayers are stuck in a ‘toxic relationship’

It’s absolutely outrageous and unacceptable that a company’s solution to preventing fires is to shut off power.

]Re: “PG&E faces sanctions, demands for refunds in wake of planned blackouts” (Mercurynews.com, Oct. 14):

There have historically been good reasons behind utility monopolies, however, PG&E’s heinous actions this past week have shown exactly why that should change.

It’s absolutely outrageous and unacceptable that a company’s solution to preventing fires is to shut off power. It goes to show how incompetent PG&E has been over the years in design and management of its power lines.

It’s even more despicable when we think of how we have no choice but to accept anything PG&E throws at us.

Our system forces citizens to stay in a toxic relationship with our power provider. This needs be our wake-up call because, if things don’t change, forced power outages could be our future.

We need to demand that PG&E do its job properly or else we will move in to break up their monopoly and make way for others to create the power innovation we need.

Alyssa NguyenSan Jose

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