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Greenie paradise California goes on rolling blackouts
American Thinker ^ | 7 Sep, 2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/07/2022 9:52:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Gavin Newsom still says he intends to sell the California greenie energy plan as a model for the nation.

Just days after signing a greenie law mandating that Californians buy only electric cars by 2035 — and calling it a model for the nation — Gov. Gavin Newsom is pleading with Californians to turn off their electricity to prevent the electrical grid from blowing out.

In some Bay Area cities — Alameda, Healdsburg, and Old Palo Alto — the rolling blackouts have already started.

It's a policy failure unlike any other, from a guy who makes no secret of wanting to run the entire country based on his state's energy model. Those ads he's taken out in Florida, urging those who fled to come back to California, are looking pathetic right now. Florida, after all, still allows air-conditioning.

The hypocrisy runs thick.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: california; communism; greenenergy

1 posted on 09/07/2022 9:52:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/07/2022 9:53:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“Those ads he’s taken out in Florida, urging those who fled to come back to California, are looking pathetic right now”

I can only speak for myself but I probably speak for many of us Floridians when I say they’ve ALWAYS looked pathetic.....
And so stupid they’re funny.


3 posted on 09/07/2022 9:58:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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California! The model for America!

You’ll own nothing, freeze in the winter, swelter in the summer, eat bugs, quietly suffer in darkness and be happy.

Because the liberal socialist alternative is either the gulag or the firing squad.

4 posted on 09/07/2022 10:08:17 AM PDT by sjmjax
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so they are putting the horse before the outlet...

how many applications for new power plants are there???


5 posted on 09/07/2022 10:08:48 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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We just got this message from PG&E:

Conditions have improved and rotating outages will not be required today:

Conditions have improved, and rotating outages are not required at your address today. We strongly encourage customers to continue conserving energy to help avoid the need for future rotating outages.


Our families in the SF East Bay and in upper north California counties have not received this message.


6 posted on 09/07/2022 10:08:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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7 posted on 09/07/2022 10:12:24 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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Texas best not bail them out this time!


8 posted on 09/07/2022 10:20:37 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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It's a policy failure unlike any other, from a guy who makes no secret of wanting to run the entire country based on his state's energy model. Those ads he's taken out in Florida, urging those who fled to come back to California, are looking pathetic right now. Florida, after all, still allows air-conditioning.

True. Gavin Newsom looks like a fool - but he was right on one thing - if liberals want to leave Florida and go back to California that's fine with most of us who live here....

9 posted on 09/07/2022 10:24:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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Bookmark


10 posted on 09/07/2022 11:07:40 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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California has voted to commit Green Energy suicide.


11 posted on 09/07/2022 11:17:02 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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That giant suckin' sound ya hear are Californians siphoning power for their EV's.


12 posted on 09/07/2022 11:18:10 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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This is BS. Rolling blackouts were announced at 3P — I got a phone call, fer Chrissake.

However, to provide cover for the chief Ahole, TwosomeNewsome, local “authorities” turned off power for some areas. I was monitoring the PG&E outage site (felt sorta like that old StarTrek episode wherein nuke strikes were televised) and both SanJose and Hercules (burbs in Frisco area) went real dark until like 8:30P.
However, the MSM is claiming that there WERE NO ROLLING BLACKOUTS — since these were done by local authorities and not the state.
Ok, potaato, potawto; whatever.
You are still sitting in the dark ‘cause some bribe-taking Aholes mandated shutting down baseload plants so the CCP could get some $$ for wind turbines and solar crappola — and kick back $$ to politicos.


13 posted on 09/07/2022 12:44:22 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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I’m fine with liberals leaving Florida if that’s what they want. Freedom of movement is paramount in this country, and they should be able to do as they wish.


14 posted on 09/07/2022 12:48:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Freedom of movement is paramount in this country, and they should be able to do as they wish.

We're in total agreement - freedom of movement is part of our overall freedoms. That said, it makes sense for liberals to move to California and other blue states - to be with their own kind - and for conservatives to move to Florida and other red states.

Again, not forced. But, if a liberal has two job offers - both equal - but one's in California and one's in Florida, they should take the California job. They can drive a battery car and allow fires to sweep through forest so the underbrush' doesn't get cut... then blame the fires on 'climate change'. AND their neighbors will agree with them on all of it. They'll be happier - we'll be happier.

15 posted on 09/08/2022 8:10:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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