Stunning chart reveals how badly Trump has bungled Puerto Ricos grid rebuild

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Three weeks after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, FEMA reported Wednesday that only a little more than 10 percent of the island’s 3.5 million U.S. citizens have power. That is down from 16 percent on Tuesday and back to levels from a week ago (see chart below).

The Trump administration is bungling the rebuilding of Puerto Rico’s grid –and trying to do it the dirty, old, expensive and vulnerable way (as we predicted). It’s time to take Tesla CEO Elon Musk up on his offer to rebuild the island’s grid the clean, modern, cheap and resilient way — with clean energy.

This remarkable chart from Reuters on “power restoration after major U.S. hurricanes” shows just how abysmal Trump’s rebuild is going.

https://thinkprogress.org/puerto-rico-grid-rebuild-bungle-3552df128370/

[KT2000]

1. Shameful....

[BigmanPigman]

2. But I thought he "builds great things" and "I am a builder".

I sure hope Elon Musk is going to assist them instead. I would not trust 45 to build a single column out of Legos.

[world wide wally]

10. Trump has never built one thing in his life.

He may have promised to pay other people to build something for him, but he can't even use children's building blocks to actually "build" something

[volstork]

11. I beg to disagree.

He has built a mountain of shit the likes of which human eyes have never seen before.

[RKP5637]

3. Trump is a disaster. I hope to hell congress or the cabinet removes him quite soon! n/t

[bdamomma]

4. Can we get him

on negligence and manslaughter?

[uponit7771]

5. Wingers seem to NOT understand Nuke Level Destruction !!!

[NeoGreen]

8. Oh they understand, and "fully" I am sure...

...they just don't care.

Brown people, ya know.

[uponit7771]

9. Yep, and no one is going to give them the benefit of the doubt cause they support Red Don

[Thinkingabout]

6. His response to Maria is much worse than Katrina, he is a loser and he hates the people of PR.

[Generic Other]

7. Almost seems like they hope everyone leaves

Foreclosures, property for sale pennies on the dollar, corporate investment, and a new playground for the rich and powerful. Tax incentives for investing. No investment in recovery. Gentrification instead.

Didn't that happen in the desireable areas of New Orleans like the French Quarter?

[rickford66]

14. Bing, bing bing !!!

[Lil Missy]

12. And he seems to be dragging his heels out of spite. This should be a criminal offense.

[gristy]

13. % power restored is the wrong thing to compare

Number of customers with power restored would be useful, along with number who had lost power.
Also useful would be the number of power poles replaced and miles of power lines replaced/restored.
This chart is not really useful.

[Marthe48]

15. dotard could screw up a wet dream

n/t

[riversedge]

16. k for visibility