re: Entergy under investigation for complaints of high utility bills

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I’m not. Those guys are awesome. Most of the Entergy employees in my area are good people.

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Linemen bust their asses, especially during outages working in terrible conditions around dangerous equipment. They earn every penny of that money.

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But I do get frustrated when my electricity goes out for hours on a sunny day without any wind. At least once monthly. May or may not be entirely an Entergy problem,

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Most of the time it isn’t. Poles get hit, trees fall down, etc. it happens a ton and more often than your could possibly imagine.

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but Louisiana needs to bury a lot of those power lines.

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Couple of things:
Burying power lines is, in most cases, absurdly cost prohibitive. Most of your utility right of ways are already filled with gas, water, and phone lines. Power has a ton of requirements for underground and the cable itself is substantially more expensive. Doing it in a brand new subdivision with nothing else in the ground is one thing. And that doesn’t even get to distribution lines, which I don’t believe it’s possible to encase due to a bunch of engineering reasons.

Transmission lines as your see them are cheap, easy to run, and easy to fix. Car hits a pole and takes it out and the linemen can have a new pole and the lines fixed in a few hours. You end up with a short in an underground line, you have to locate it, cut concrete and conduit, etc.

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Or trim their damn trees.

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100% not an Entergy problem. Tell your neighbors to stop bitching when they do try to trim trees. Or stop growing trees in the right of way. Entergy isn’t letting trees grow around power lines out of laziness. It’s why after any major storm you’ll see the trucks out cutting trees like crazy as there’s usually less people complaining about it.