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View Poll Results: What is the MAIN cause of California's recent wildfires, in your opinion?

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  • Private ownership of California's energy sector. <-- THE RIGHT ANSWER.

    3 60.00%
  • Recent budget cuts to state and local fire-prevention services in California.

    3 60.00%
  • The unusually dry conditions resulting from global warming.

    3 60.00%
  • Lack of underground shelters. (Source: California Governor Jerry Brown)

    0 0%
  • Lack of raking. (Source: President Donald Trump)

    0 0%
  • Democrats shooting lasers from space. (Source: Info Wars)

    1 20.00%
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Thread: Poll: What Caused the California Wildfires?

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    Poll: What Caused the California Wildfires?

    So California has just endured the deadliest wildfires in the history of that state and people want to know the cause. I feel that the technical cause was likely some combination of private ownership of the state's energy sector yielding a lack of concern with the public's basic safety and well-being in the area of fire prevention (e.g. the damaged power line that reportedly started the first blaze was owned by PG&E, which has amassed a long record of safety code violations that have cost them huge volumes of money in lawsuits) and recent budget cuts to California's state and local fire prevention services in the name of balancing budgets that were only out of balance in the first place because of corporate tax giveaways, but that this situation was exacerbated by global artificial warming leading to dryer-than-usual conditions.

    I find it absurd that the government of California responded by committing to protecting PG&E's solvency above the public safety. They actually will now be allowed to compensate for any legal damages they may incur as a result of this catastrophe by hiking the rates of their customers! Seriously? Yes, seriously! They can (almost certainly, even state authorities themselves seem to believe) cause a catastrophe like this and then charge their victims for the associated legal costs! Un-$#@!ing-believable. It shows you just how little difference there can be between having a Republican governor and a Democratic one sometimes.

    What do you think is the real cause of this IMO very unnatural disaster?
    Last edited by IMPress Polly; 11-26-2018 at 04:22 PM.

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    The option you forgot to add: How Misguided Environmentalism Is To Blame For California’s Wildfires.

    Your right answer is wrong.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    The option you forgot to add: How Misguided Environmentalism Is To Blame For California’s Wildfires.

    Your right answer is wrong.

    Yours is correct.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Environmentalists. When you think of burned Californians thank the Sierra Club.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Too many men doing manly things in a manly way, setting off sparks on the highway.

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    there was one glaring disparity...........how about mismanagement of forestry? You don't clear brush, and all that deadfall only fuels fires...... Clear cutting dead trees and dry brush removal would have gone a long way this year.
    If that had been done, do you really think those fires would have gotten so big so fast?. Even the idiots in some of those 'burbs would have shot someone for suggesting they protect their homes by clearing deadfall and dried brush away from their homes.
    All trees are no taller than four times the distance as their height from my house. There is no brush around any of my structures and that there is, is 1/4 of a mile from any standing structure around me.
    Common sense will tell you that if you build among the sycamores, you can burn up just as fast as if you were to pour gas on your house.
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    Actually, the MAIN cause was just a campfire.
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    I don't know.
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    I dont think what started the fires is not clearing underbrush, but Trump was on the money that not clearing the underbrush made the fire the nightmare it was and made it spread as and furiously as it did.

    Thats why florida has controlled burns to remove ALL underbrush and it WORKS. Trump was right but no one in california of course could ever bring themselves to say it and that worthless Jerry Brown cant stand up to the environmentalists that made him leave that underbrush
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    None of the above, unseasonably high winds all summer.

    The rest is fudge.

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