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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with every word you wrote.  I don't have any answers however.

I don't understand why, year after year, we (affluent, educated, informed) Pepco customers tolerate this.  Every single year we have these outages (often 2 or more times a year), every single year we suffer, throw away food, lose valuable time.   Businesses lose money and stock (our local grocery store had to throw out virtually everything - covered by insurance of course but that cost makes its way to the consumer).  The same thing happens, the same outrage ensues, every.single.year.

And yet, nothing changes.

My view is that this is not different from e.g. agribusiness and the FDA.  Food business is not well-regulated because the regulating body/government is in the pockets of the business thanks to PACs, lobbying, etc.  Pepco, like agribusiness, can do as it like$ while the legislature puts on the show of slapping it with (meaningless/small) fines and displaying outrage.  Then some time passes after the storm, Pepco continues to rake in profits, people settle down (memories are short), then another storm hits.  Wash, rinse, repeat.

I am 51yo and have lived in major cities all over the world (and their suburbs too):  New York, Boston, Madrid, London, Chicago.  Never, not once, did I experience anything like these outages before moving here ten years ago.

It is outrageous, crazy.  But I don't know what the answer is.  I do know that it contributes to my overall dissatisfaction with the overall quality of life here in MoCo.  Every summer I dread these storms and outages, every single summer.    [/quote]

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