Because we are not putting enough money back into our infrastructure whether that be electrical or natural gas or whatever. Because of this, those who can function completely without the grid whether that be the electrical grid or the natural gas grid or even gasoline or diesel if that is possible, the more likely these people will continue to have their lives function this century.
If you seriously look at America's infrastructure problems they are very very serious and basically too expensive to even fix in the old ways we have done things the last 50 years because of Unions and parts too expensive and other problems making everything to expensive to fix.
We were a much richer country (per capita) in the 1950s and 1960s than we are now. What do I mean?
It means when I grew up at age 16 I had a job making $3 an hour (3 times the minimum wage then part time) when gasoline cost 15 to 17 cents a gallon and I could afford to buy my own car for $600 working part time in high school after school. And this car was only 8 years old which was a 1956 Ford Station wagon then in 1964.
If you look around you that isn't even possible now for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason is the cost of living is so high.
Then a 17 year old in 1965 could support 5 to 7 people and buy a house if he wanted to just working as a carpenter or a garbage man easy. And this was without even a high school education.
Try that today.
So, the point is we cannot financially afford to replace our electrical grid infrastructure OR our Natural gas infrastructure so you notice regularly houses blow up from gas main failures from 50 year old or older gas mains across the country. I met a couple in February in Santa Fe, New Mexico who blew up in the spring in North Carolina by the way in their house this year.They are both gone now.This is really crazy because they both were really nice people. Look at San Bruno, California
And this is just going to keep happening until we go another direction both with electrical and with natural gas and with bridges rusting away now.
So, the more independent you are from electrical grids (like having solar or wind where you live or having a gasoline or diesel generator) the more likely you will be fine the rest of this century no matter what happens to our infrastructure in the future.
San Bruno pipeline explosion - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
Jump to Pacific Gas and Electric Company - The blaze was fed by a ruptured gas pipe, and large clouds of smoke soared into the sky. It took 60 to 90 minutes to shut off the gas after the explosion, according to San Bruno Fire Chief Dennis Haag. The explosion and resulting fire leveled 35 houses and damaged many more.
Location: San Bruno, California; United States
Date: September 9, 2010
PG&E receives maximum sentence for 2010 San Bruno pipeline ...
https://abc7news.com/news/pg-e-receives...for...san-bruno-explosion/1722674/
Jan 26, 2017 - More than six years after a PG&E pipeline explosion killed eight people and injured dozens more, a San Francisco judge handed down a sentence that will put PG&E's crimes in the spotlight.
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