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Reflecting on California fires

Re: “Free Market Power — Why the lights stay on in Texas and not in California,” Tuesday Editorials.

Your editorial on free market power is a sad attempt to conflate California’s fires with the type of market system that utilities operate under. If Texas had extremely rugged terrain, an abundance of tinder-dry vegetation and strong, dry winds, it would have California-like fires. Scientists have determined that climate change has exacerbated the various components in the mix. The free market system would have zero to do with mitigating these outbreaks.

Juley Welch, Fairview

Replacing transmission lines

I appreciate your salute to the free market in contrasting the electricity market results in Texas and California. In addition, from two very reputable news sources I have read and heard in the past week, a major problem for PG&E has been requirements enacted by the state legislators in California to spend billions on questionable “green energy”…