Editor,
What is it with the recent PG&E commercials about underground activities? Over and over and over again, on multiple channels, with no end in sight. What’s the point? This could have been handled with an announcement in the bill, with a link to an online video for those who might be interested.
Who is paying for this? You and me. Where is the PUC? Is there no oversight to prevent waste like this? It isn’t the first time PG&E goes overboard with a totally unnecessary flood of TV commercials. And unless action is taken, it probably won’t be the last.
Jorg Aadahl
San Mateo
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(6) comments
How much does this movie starlet make, and what else does she do to justify whatever she makes, - besides self-promoting commercials, I mean? What kind of parachute has been prepared for her to exit and get out of trouble when the next PG&E disaster hits, – like for her predecessors? As a customer, I’m just wondering.
Jorg - we finally agree on this largesse at PG&E. The ratepayers were promised a more responsible board of directors and new management. Instead, they were all selected by Newsom and it is business as usual. Please note that senior management were held personally liable for the recent fires but that they all had liability insurance in their compensation package. No personal nickel will be returned to the rate payers. PG&E changed from an engineering and customer service company in the 1990s to a greedy focus on shareholder value. That is what caused the ensuing disasters along with a complicit CPUC. I was there when it happened.
Jorg - while I agree that these are self-serving and feature a grossly overpaid CEO, I recall from my days at PG&E that all commercials are paid for by the shareholders.
Either way, Dirk, it means that PG&E has an extremely incompetent Board of Directors. That embarrassing commercial is the epitome of mismanagement. Nothing new there, actually, - and not much of a surprise, unfortunately.
Hello, Jorg
Well, if the public is not paying for the commercials, I guess PG&E's ownership can buy all the air time they can afford. However, your point about where they are focusing their energies is a good one. Thanks for your LTE.
BTW... you're also correct about the commercials being annoying... no debate about that!
Whoever throws this kind of money right out the window, - what on flat Earth do they expect in return? Where’s the payoff, or ROI? Or is it simply money so easily earned that they want to get rid of it, to ease their conscience? If that’s the case, why not donate to charity, instead of wasting it on silly commercials? Perhaps PG&E should not be privately owned, but run by the state, for the common good? That question was also raised after the San Bruno fires a decade or so ago, which prompted another series of silly commercials.
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