New York Blackout Prompts Call for Publicly Owned Energy

1. We need solar, wind and other kinds of renewable energy !!! Skyscrapers need to have backup generators!!!

2. Great show, thanks!

3. Obviously done by the same people who blacked out Venezuela.
   They black out black neighborhood because there will less of a crime wave than if they black out a white neighborhood.

4. Yeah, Flint, MI is a great example of mishandled water and still the governor is not held accountable!!

5. The Big Apple running out of juice?

6. NUCLEAR POWER IS THE ANSWER *

7. Military don't have nothing to do with water, electric and gas.

8. They should just include water and electric in the rent. Just make it electric and gas and water free. It's a resource that humans need to survive.

9. Privatizing doesn't work well at all

10. Gosh isn’t public owned energy a socialist program – ha guess capitalism doesn’t always work best for some services – lol

11. The Socialist Countries of the World have got it wrong 51% of energy Stock is maintained by the STATE.
    AS in the Republic of Ireland
    SHOCKING isn't it
    Irish citizen

12. Medicine is also a vital utility that could and should be publicly owned — and not just the payment for that medicine with Medicare for all. All of medicine from initial research to testing to manufacture and distribution of drugs and medical devices should be publicly owned. Engineers and scientists, the ones innovating, working for pharmaceutical corporations already give up the patent rights for their inventions in exchange for a regular paycheck; they aren't being motivated by the monopoly profits that patents provide. So, those scientists working for a publicly owned drug company would be getting the same regular paycheck but their research would be directed by the goal of benefiting the patients instead of with a corporation where they are being directed by the goal of benefiting shareholder value.

13. Corporate owned utilities are serving the shareholders who like reliable dividend payments & not the public who need reliable electricity. If you hear critics of publicly owned energy, wherever that may be, I think it's a safe bet that they are shareholders in the energy corporation that would be replaced by a publicly owned energy utility if the citizens decided to make the switch.

14. California should sue PG&E and pierce the corporate vail and hold board members and share holders personally responsible.

15. NAH . WE NEED TO PRIVATIZE SO THERE IS NO SELF INTEREST .

16. Multinational Capitalism (and the smaller wanna-be-s), ruins everything. Except for the Public Relations (propaganda) industry. They're doing really well. The planet & the rest of us, not so well.

17. The 25% most intelligent own 75% of the wealth and as wealth is the only source of power there ever was, the only source of power that there ever will be, if everyone stopped thinking that they deserve to be rich, we could put a cap on wealth and end all that ails society.

18. When I was young, not a single woman had a crackly, manly and gruff sounding voice. Today, most all do and if women want to be men that bad, than when faced with mortal danger, they should stop screaming for men to come take a claw in the head or a knife in the guts to do or die in their defense. That's what I always say.

19. PGand E gets sued, loses and makes the consumer foot the bill. They then get sued for making the consumer pay. They send people around to ask you if you want your cut of the money back from the law suit. People walking door to door asking. Most people think it is a scam and deny it, pgand e keeps the money.

20. Quoting from the text description for this video, " Democracy Collaborative’s Johanna Bozuwa says making utilities public would help foster democracy and fight the climate crisis ". Imo, she also spoke about more than only democracy and climate, and, imo, the additional things she said are rather important. F.e., she also spoke about making utilities cies public would permit to make more or better certain that the providers are reliable, more so anyway. With the recent severe blackout in NYC happening for a rather long time and during a serious heat wave, it means the population wouldn't be able to use air conditioning when it when greatly needed, even absolutely necessary for some people, for people die from temperatures, and humidity, from heat waves.

21. The utilities in NYC aren't public?! wtf

22. Revenge of the Comandante Maduro😃 . . .

23. Con Ed should be made public sector, no doubt.

24. People in poor neighborhoods, identified by their zip codes, get power cuts. Peasants, that is how the world works and you don't get it. When it snows, guess who gets their streets plowed first? You people probably believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny too!

25. Their serving this military and capitalist; while screwing the middle-class and poor.

    As of now; there is no middle-class anymore.

    California is moving to renewable energy; which I find laughable.

    IT'S A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR THAT!!

26. One of the best things about living in Sacramento is that we have a publicly-owned electric utility, SMUD. We also have the cheapest, greenest electricity in California.
    Also, PG&E doesn't just kill people through wildfires (Paradise, Sonoma) but also through gas line explosions (San Bruno) and their surviving customers keep paying for the death and destruction.

27. Let's get real, we know who they're serving.

28. Utility cooperatives are a far better model. It works here in NM very well.

29. I am off grid and very poor tumor in my back and can't work. Before I got my solar power system installed i lived without any power for over two years because I can't pay a bill. It only cost me about $8000 installed. Maintenance and fuel costs about $200 a year.

30. okay people… 2:09 "that's crazy, who are they protecting? so they are gonna let us suffer to protect who?"

    this is how electric grids work. wtf do you mean that's crazy? go get a degree in electrical engineering and then say that's crazy. they don't really get to choose which neighborhoods get "protected." it depends on where the problem in the grid is, and a decision like this could mean the difference between getting your power back in the next few days or getting it back in the next few WEEKS. seriously, and you are gonna drag people down with you just because you don't want to suffer alone? please.

31. Solar energy is needed now and get rid of THESE Slimy old backward thinking business folks to keep people like Sheeple depending on others….

32. in my opinion, nothing that is a basic necessity that everyone is forced to buy should be in the private sector. health care, electricity, water. it should all be publicly funded at least on some level.

33. Stop using so much stuff you whiny bitches. I live with no power!

34. Been getting ripped off by both public and private entities since we were born!

35. “a wildfire in California has reduced the ability of a transmission line to carry electricity, boosting the value of power in parts of the state and the profits on electricity trades they have made.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/weekinreview/word-for-word-energy-hogs-enron-traders-grandma-millie-making-like-bandits.html

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