Don't panic, Governor Brown! Just mandate that all vehicles - from mopeds to trains - be sail-powered. After all, sails worked just fine for Columbus.
“The question of whether drivers should be gently persuaded or forced out of their internal combustion engine cars and trucks over the next 17 years will weigh heavily on the landmark summit, which runs from Wednesday through Friday in San Francisco.”
A meeting of drooling control freaks.
Is Jerry going to invent a solar powered jet? Or are we supposed to walk to Hawaii?
Don't panic, Governor Brown! Just mandate that all vehicles - from mopeds to trains - be sail-powered. After all, sails worked just fine for Columbus.
One deadline to rule them all
One deadline to find them
One deadline to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
I guess customer preferences are not a big priority in California.
Related:
They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It’s Their Moment of Truth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/climate/california-climate-summit.html
Speaking of deadlines, by how many years has Brown’s high-speed train gone past its carefully planned (sarc) completion date?
i wonder how many of those “world leaders” traveled in IC vehicles to/from their respective airports and to/from airport’s near Jerry’s summit? How many traveled in first class jets or private jets? how many had security entourages that included IC vehicles? how many will take IC taxis or rental cars to tool around in the vicinity of Jerry’s summit? yeah, I thought so ...
Like mandating that in 2050 pigs WILL fly (and not on aircraft).
You want free health care, free college tuition, and a sanctuary state? Well there is a price. You can’t have a car or a fire in your fireplace. You can only use 22 gallons of water per day. You have to pay for energy that can be produced only by hydrogelectric wind or solar. And you should probably learn Spanish
A gallon of gasoline holds the equivalent of 36.6 kwh of energy. A gallon of diesel holds the equivalent of 41.1 kwh of energy. A typical Tesla 40 kwh battery stores approximately 36 kwh of “usable” energy in 6800 “18500” lithium ion cells and can be purchased new from Tesla for approximately $40,000 if you bought one of their cars. So a Tesla battery is basically a $40,000 one gallon gas can.
I don’t know why, but it’s hard to believe that they can still write things this stupid. There is no mention of the fact that even if every vehicle in California were electric, it would have almost no impact on the climate, even according to the deeply flawed models. There’s no mention of the massive environmental problems that battery technology is creating, from the mineral mining, to manufacturing, to disposal. They talk about the transition of power plants as a model, but there’s no mention of the role of fracking and natural gas in bringing down carbon emissions in the power generation industry, nor that the U.S. has because of that reduced our carbon emissions more than any other country, including all of those supposedly committed to doing so under the Paris Accords.
But yes, there are plenty of quotes from self-interested politicians and global warming crony capitalists in support of this inane effort.
What does Moonbeam care if this flops spectacularly? He'll be dead.
And more:
Tesla, BMW, Edison and others partner in Los Angeles’s plan to accelerate electrification of transport
California governor signs law for clean energy by 2045
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45476865
our printed, fiat US dollar and massive debt can afford American Leftist politicians A LOT of sins and stupidity.
California might break off and be at the bottom of the Pacific by then
As soon as the moonbeam gives up electricity and any other form of power from fossil fuels we can talk....until then.