Bob Hennelly, WNYC's contributing editor for politics and investigations, joins to talk about his reporting on developments on the future of power companies in New Jersey and on the latest from the Governor's office.
Bob Hennelly, WNYC's contributing editor for politics and investigations, joins to talk about his reporting on developments on the future of power companies in New Jersey and on the latest from the Governor's office.
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escaped -- you argue that it costs 10x the price to fix wires underground as a reason not to put them underground? that logic is valid only if the wires underground "fell down" in a storm at the same rate. Where we live, every other pole came down, all wires and many transformers. There was no flooding though. Therefore every dollar spent putting wires underground -- so long as the job was done intelligently -- would have been a dollar saved in the case of sandy. we live in the mountains, probably not a smart idea for staten island or hoboken.
undergound cables are submerged under 6 feet of water on inland grids when it hasnt rained in weeks. The manholes on the downhills runs can be under 20 feet of water, without a storm.
As a telephone utility splicer, our biggest and longest lasting outages were when there was a Underground cable faiure, it happened all the time.
It cost a lot more, at least 10 times the aerial cost to fix
You mentioned property taxes. Rent is too high! This is dystopic! There should be a tax break for lower rent, and all property taxes need to be pooled and distributed equally to stop racist segregation and clasdist segregation and retardation of opportunities in poor ghettos.
Ah yes, Gov. Christie's decision-making logic regarding the ACA health care exchanges and the ARC Tunnel project vis-a-vis federal funding:
His overall lack of vision and poor recognition of __investments__ for his (and my) state is precisely the reason he will never get my vote.
(Different circumstances but similar logic behind his decision to opt out of the successful RGGI program also kills me.)
Christie's running for president in 2016. By rejecting the exchanges he gets credit for standing up to Obama and since the fed will set up the exchanges he will claim credit for everyone having coverage.
Bob was wrong, Stewart wasn't critiquing the praise Christie gave the President vs. asking for money for the storm. It was Christie's application of the exchange/Obama care vs. asking aid for the storm...
Has Bob Hennelly ever criticized Christie for anything at all? He seems to be a big Christie apologist...completely biased.
Fine HSBC another 4 billion dollars to fund ObamaCare.
Fine HSBC another 2 billion dollars to fund the underground wire project.
What is cheaper, sticking the wires underground or spending the $15 or $20 billion a year on wire repair? Do we know?
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