Many businesses without gasoline or diesel generators likely will start going out of business during the next few months

especially food stores big and small and delis simply because most stores cannot sustain thousands of dollars of food storage from refrigerators turned off by the power outages.

Likewise, homes that cannot afford a generator of some kind will lose over and over again 200 to 400 dollars in food likely each power outage.

However, one way to avoid this is to only buy enough frozen food or refrigerator perishable food for a couple of days at a time. This way you aren't having to buy a generator but it would be time consuming buying perishables every 2 to 3 days ongoing through these shutdowns.

Also, you have to make sure the food you are buying isn't spoiled too because of different markets losing power as well when you buy like this as well. Because food businesses taking these kinds of losses might be hard put to actually tell you what foods are safe to eat and what is not with refrigerators going off and on throughout all this.

I'm thinking many more homes and businesses are going to go solar with generator backup during these times thereby reducing P,G&E's customer base over time. So, in effect they are slowly driving themselves out of business (P, G&E).