Why does North America still use these?
In Europe all the power lines are underground. It's sad to see a city like NYC lose power just because a hurricane knocked down a tree which causes a power outage.
>>61981796
Because our country is much more spread out in terms of population density and it would be a logistical and economical nightmare?
My mother's village in Germany has above ground power lines.
>>61981796
Spending more money up front for long term benefits is something that only pinko commie scum would support. You don't want higher taxes, do you, you fucking LIBERAL SHIT?
>>61981796
The thing is not inly about the power lines - youre whole power system is a huge mess.
No single industrialized cunt should have blackouts.
Its embarrassing af.
Not joking lads - you should invest a fuckload of shekelz in youre infrastructure and not fucking military for playing world police
>>61982336
That would require robbing citizens of their hard earned cash through "taxes".
>>61982336
America is not even an industrialized country as we don't have universal health, tuition free universities, no paid vacation days, use coal for power and so on.
>>61981796
>In Europe all the power lines are underground.
In cities, yes.
In the countryside you still have poles like that, and the high voltage lines are generally above ground as well.
>>61981796
who cares about jew york city
>>61982378
But why?
Isnt it important for you?
Why is infrastructure and welfare that unimportant for you guys?
>>61981796
I don't think you understand how very expensive burying cables becomes and how large the United States and Canada are. Also not all power cables in Europe are buried. Also a single tree will not cause a massive blackout, whenever that happens it was because the grid was already under massive strain and it was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
>>61982392
Thing is American cities do not fully have underground power lines.
>>61982425
We need to spend trillions on bombing terrorists instead of investing.
>>61982425
Because that's communism and gives the government too much control
>>61981880
>costs more to install
>costs more to maintain
>wreaks havoc with other underground utility lines
>hurr durr murrica is stupid for not being like Europe in a superficial way
Neck yourself m8
>>61982430
>whenever that happens it was because the grid was already under massive strain and it was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
But when theres always this strain - then every single straw will be disastrous
>>61982456
>spend trillions on bombing middle easterners
>the instability we create winds up creating bigger problems that require quadrillions of dollars worth of bombing campaigns to contain
>repeat ad infinitum
If every single American invests all their money in military contractors and weapons manufacturers, we're basically printing infinite money and we can all be rich forever.
>>61982509
We tried that once and it did not go the way we wanted
>>61982541
We're the good guys though so we'll always win.
>>61982558
I see
>>61982477
>But when theres always this strain - then every single straw will be disastrous
It's not. By objective measures the US/Canada electrical grids have good uptime with few outages. You simply hear about the problems on the news because they are newsworthy. Also I'm pretty sure that the US suffers from significantly more severe weather events than Germany. When was the last time you guys had a hurricane/tornado/massive forest fire? Try designing a system that doesn't experience outages during one of those.
They look cute
>>61982474
You are the goverment
I live in the deep south and all my power lines are underground.
Stay mad, yankeefags.
>>61981796
>In Europe all the power lines are underground.
Belgium even has the telephone lines above the ground. The internet modem is in the attic, i searched for hours to find it. And if it storms the first thing that dies is the interbutt.
>>61981796
Because the country is huge and spread out, you could literally fit the entire European Union into the United States.
>>61982378
None of those things have anything to do with being industrialized, those are criteria you'd look at to determine if a country is socialist or nor.
>no paid vacation days
This isn't true at all. Have you ever had a job?
>use coal for power
They use coal for power in Europe too. We just use more of it because we have literally 1/3 of the world's supply.
>>61982805
even my shithol has underground power and landlines, what's you problem?
>>61983017
Most of it is empty as fuck though. Building underground lines into populated areas shouldn't be too hard.
>why doesn't a continent sized country install underground power lines
>why don't you just raise taxes to pay for it
Do you Europeans know anything about America?
>>61985493
>Do you Europeans know anything about America?
You shoot people who build underground cables?
>>61985493
MURRICA
LAND OF THE FREE
LAND OF THE NO GOVERNMENTAL HELP SINCE ITS GOMMUNIST
LAND OF THE HUGE MEDICAL BILLS
LAND OF THE HUGE PEOPLE
LAND OF THE RACIST COPS
LAND OF THE JEWS
