SDG&E's lust for removing trees is pornographic.

Guest Commentary by Jeanne Gahagan.

(Jeanne Gahagan is a San Diego resident and SDG&E victim)

SDGE is addicted to the promiscuous wanton destruction of palm trees that pose no interference whatsoever with overhead power lines - or anything else for that matter - other than perhaps a corporate syndrome of male inadequacy.

Men suffering from such a psychosis may consume Viagra and then find a complicit sex worker to draw off some of their accretions.  SD&GE wields its corporate penis by threatening property owners with lawsuits if they complain about SDGE whacking off (trees) for no discernable reason other than SDGE, like a 13 year old pubescent teen in the privacy of his room, can do it with impunity.

At the risk of frustrating the reader with an early withdrawal from the tease of sex, this is about corporate environmental malfeasance. SDGE owns easements along sidwalks in Mission Hills that allow it to remove things, such as trees, that interfere with
power lines. SDGE apparently believes that their easement also allows them to remove trees that are remote from the nearest power line and needs no further reason for removal apart from some weird sort of fetish in felling something long, hard, and upright. In  fact, SDGE is actively continuing such removal right now. By "remove" I mean "whack off at the base", not "dig up for replanting",  something that is easily and frequently done in the case of this particular victim tree, the palm.

Calling the removal of trees with a root system too shallow to annoy gophers and a top too small to stretch to the nearest overhead power line "stupid" is an unneccessary offense against stupidity. It is a waste of effort, resulting in no discernable reduction in
the arboreal risk to SDGE's power lines. It is a waste of money. It is a waste of trees. You know, those big things that soak up
CO2. So where are the global warming obsessives when you need them? In darkened theaters, wearing rubber gloves and drooling over the latest globaloney peep show from Al Gore.

For those truly sick enough to require pictures to get off, I have some. If you have a stump fetish like SDGE, you're going to love
these. Those of us with normal environmental urges, however, will want to puke at these photos.

As a Supreme Court justice once said, pornography cannot be defined, but you know it when you see it. Have a gander at some
corporate porn.