It’s much worse than this.
I have it on good authority (this is fact that cannot be confirmed) that CA gov newsom personally called a major power producer in the state and ‘requested’ that he scale back his utility’s power output because “he was producing too much power.”
It wasn’t 12 hours later when he got a call from the feds ‘requesting’ the same, for like reasons.
He told them - basically - to get bent due to the cost of restarting the facilities (in the millions of $$).
His utility produces electricity from oil deep in the heart of liberal CA.
Footnote: I also have it on good authority that he told Newsom that if there was any fallout from his denial that he would ‘out’ the facts about power generation in CA, particularly his utility’s use of oil for newsom’s electricity grid. Newsom obviously made a phone call and the feds chimed in; unknown is whether the utility owner was amused or pissed off that newsom made the call to the feds. Whether or not the media reports on the details in my comment in the coming days will answer that question...
Interesting....