Whether rural communities "deserve" electrification is a topic we need to reopen. When we created the notion of rural electrification, there were many little communities all over the place engaged in farming and mining and logging, and it was easy to see that power and telephone to such places was not just fair but necessary. But in this century what we have is separatists who simply spread out because they hate everyone, not for a valid economic purpose. These dispersions of houses such as you see in Amador County were built quite recently. Those people should face the full economic consequence of their preferences, not be subsidized by the state.