Posted on 05/17/2022 6:00:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Gavin Newsom is bi-polar. He wants to get us into all electric homes and cars. At the same time he is limiting and destroying energy sources—causing brownouts and blackouts. If we had 8 million more EV cars and 2 million all electric homes, we would have to ration electricity to a few hours a days and maybe one charge of your EV each week. Newsom is providing the foundation of the collapse of the California economy.
““Our state is on the frontlines of extreme weather, and we’re taking aggressive steps to protect Californians from the costs of climate change — transitioning away from the big polluters fueling this crisis and towards clean energy,” Newsom said. “These incentives make it easier and cheaper to make that transition.”
This year’s increase in electric car sales was, no doubt, spurred in part by a steep hike in gasoline prices, as well as subsidies – which poses an interesting dichotomy. Newsom has decried those fuel price spikes and wants the state to offset them with payments to motorists, which would reduce some of their motivation to buy electric cars.”
Not only would there be a severe limit on the energy you can use, but the cost of available energy will sky rocket. Could that be his goal, use energy policy to depopulate California?
BY DAN WALTERS, Calmatters, 5/15/22
IN SUMMARY
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Air Resources Board are boasting about California’s shift to zero-emission vehicles but the reality of making it happen is daunting.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board publicly boasted last week about making great strides toward eliminating fossil fuels and their greenhouse gases.
The board released “a draft plan that, when final, will guide the state’s transition to a clean energy economy, drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels, achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 or sooner, and significantly clean the state’s air especially in disadvantaged communities disproportionately burdened by persistent pollution.”
Much of the plan is concentrated on transportation — particularly cars and trucks — which is the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
“That means rapidly moving to zero-emission transportation, electrifying the cars, buses, trains, and trucks that now constitute California’s single largest source of planet-warming pollution,” ARB said.
Newsom, meanwhile, crowed that with new state subsidies, sales of battery-powered zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) have exceeded 16% of all new vehicle sales so far this year, more than double the proportion in 2020. He also noted that Californians make half of nationwide purchases of electric vehicles.
“Our state is on the frontlines of extreme weather, and we’re taking aggressive steps to protect Californians from the costs of climate change — transitioning away from the big polluters fueling this crisis and towards clean energy,” Newsom said. “These incentives make it easier and cheaper to make that transition.”
This year’s increase in electric car sales was, no doubt, spurred in part by a steep hike in gasoline prices, as well as subsidies – which poses an interesting dichotomy. Newsom has decried those fuel price spikes and wants the state to offset them with payments to motorists, which would reduce some of their motivation to buy electric cars.
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Moreover, were California to eventually ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles and go 100% ZEVs, as Newsom also advocates, charging their batteries would impose immense new burdens on an electric power grid that’s already strained to meet demand.
By happenstance, as Newsom and the air board were issuing their upbeat messages about the shift, a financial data website, Forbes Advisor, was revealing that California has one of the nation’s worst records on providing recharging sites for ZEV owners.
Its study, drawn from U.S. Department of Energy data and numbers from all 50 states, found that North Dakota is the nation’s most ZEV-friendly state with one charging station for every 3.18 electric vehicles.
Wyoming, Rhode Island, Maine and West Virginia round out the top five.
And California? It has the fourth highest ratio, just one station for every 31.2 ZEVs. New Jersey is the least accommodating to ZEV owners, with one station for every 46.16 electric vehicles.
Okay, so California is lacking when it comes to infrastructure needed to support the ZEV nirvana that Newsom and the ARB envision, both in terms of electrical power supply and sites to connect that power to electric cars.
However, the situation may actually be worse.
Again by happenstance, last week brought us evidence that not only is California failing to provide enough ZEV charging stations, but those it does have often don’t work.
David Rempel, a retired professor of bioengineering from UC Berkeley, and a team of volunteers tested 181 public Bay Area charging stations with 657 plug-in kiosks and found 73% in working order but 23% had inoperable screens, payment failures or broken connector cables and in 5% cables were too short to reach vehicles recharging inlets.
California’s much-vaunted shift to electric cars may turn out to be one of the state government’s many high-concept programs that become managerial disasters, another Department of Motor Vehicles or Employment Development Department.
I can’t wait for the EV-worshippers to chime in and start talking about battery advancements …. even though they’re being forced to revert to old technology due to environmental and child slave labor issues that folks are getting wise to …. and all the other advancements that will take place later on and funded by the taxpayers.
You know, in like 20,30, 40, 50 years from now.
By then we should all be flying around in our own X-Wing fighters and hopping on the Millennium Falcon for a quick trip to the moon or some other spot in the galaxy.
California is certainly the land of fruits and nuts. I have no idea how people tolerate blackouts and brownouts. Not only do they tolerate them, they continue to vote for the same people who created the policies. Perhaps they are inherently stupid and have no clue as who to blame.
If he was serious, he would immediately Mandate that ALL Public Employee’s in the State only use, own, operate or possess ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES or be Terminated immediately and loss of all pension and retirement benefits.
SHOW US HOW IT WORKS
Extreme weather? It’s Mediterranean, droughts and flood for ten thousand years. Nothing has changed but the politics.
Is anyone else angry at this concept of the state providing charging stations for electric vehicles? We have some in my damn blue town (which makes sense because they are fully woke in Town Hall, and want to officially declare a “climate emergency” and make the town 100% renewable energy by 2050 and all the stupidity that goes along with that.)
India and China are busily installing coal powered electric power stations...as well as having high levels of atmospheric pollution.
The winds blow west to east and dump the pollution on California.
The only true zero-emission vehicles are peddle cars they need to get a grip on reality.
The city of utopia is in the state of mind.
You are incorrect sir. They will continue to vote for them, but they are not "inherently stupid" and they know exactly who to blame... non-Hispanic white people. I guess someone forgot to send you the memo. Non-Hispanic white people are responsible for all of the ills in California. Fortunately the percentage of these villains are dropping fast.
In 1970 when Ronald Reagan was still in his first term as Governor, the population of California was 90% white, 7% black, and 3% Asian. 13% of the population was Hispanic. 50 years later in 2020, 74% of the population is white, 6% are mixed race, 5% are black, and 15% are Asian. However, 39% of the population is now Hispanic... by far the largest demographic. Less than 35% of the population of California are currently non-Hispanic white people. Since non-Hispanic white people are blamed for all of the ills in California regardless of their political affiliation, they are abandoning the state like rats jumping from a sinking ship.
A quick glance at those demographics should be enough for you to figure out why the Democrats are currently trying to flood the country with illegal immigrants, targeting swing states especially... They want to do for the rest of the country what they have done for California. They want to turn the USA from a moderately conservative, Reagan loving, free, economic powerhouse to a third world hell hole with lefties in charge.
The Nazis managed to kill approximately 11 million people in concentration camps, including 6 million people of Jewish descent. California currently has only 14 million non-Hispanic white people; vast numbers are migrating to places like Texas and Florida. At the current pace, by the time California starts opening up concentration camps to "protect" people with fair skin from others rightfully blaming them for the coming unreliable power grid and expensive fuel... they will likely have less people to take care of than the Germans did.
A study was done in Great Britain that determined that bicyclists emit on average 21g of CO2 per kilometer. This of course factored in the necessary increase in food intake to replace calories burned and thus the need for increased food production. Peddle cars are far less efficient than bicycles. So no, they are not “zero-emission” vehicles.
Silly you! Do you have any idea how much CO2 is pumped out by the peddler? /s
You mean pedal cars? The cars being peddled are the EVs.
No the pedal cars after the brown outs start to happen.
But your right up to that point.
The cars come stock with CO2 converter masks they won’t miss a trick it’s still the or else game.
Peddle cars are efficient they are spring powered you just have to peddle a bit to rewind them lower CO2 and less food intake sails optional.
But one thing that is interesting about California, for all of its insanity, it allows the people to have a great deal of participation in the legislative process.
In Georgia, as we speak, the state government is giving the state away to corporations and industries with massive tax incentives. And all of the deals have been done in secret. Right now, the moron we have for Governor is wanting to give a start up EV company that can’t build a car, the largest tax package in the history of the country.
And there’s nothing the people can do about it.
I looked up whether or not Georgians have the ability to, through petitions/signatures, put a referendum on the ballot. WE CANNOT
The people of California can. They can force a referendum to enact a law, cancel a law, modify a law, add or get rid of an amendment to the state constitution. Much more a government of, by and for the people.
So, while the people may seem a bit looney to all of us, they’re not the tax paying slaves and seeds like the rest of are finding out we are.
Good Idea.
Let’s see a LA Freeway car chase using EVs.
The referendum issue is common in a lot of states. The people can’t do it in Pennsylvania, but the legislature can. They do this to change the Commonwealth’s constitution. I believe that’s one of the few things that are put forth to the people. With that said, referendum is a double edged sword. It is a step towards democracy. We all know how that works out, and it ain’t good.
The non-Hispanic whites that don’t leave are dying off. My parents are in their late 80s. Two of their three children moved North. Of their seven grandchildren, only one is still living in California.
I understand what you’re saying and you’re right
But that same referendum process kept gay marriage off the books in California every time they tried. It wasn’t until Kennedy and SCOTUS gave it to them.
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