Posted on 04/08/2022 7:48:55 AM PDT by rktman
California electricity bills are among the highest in the nation and are set to continue skyrocketing, putting state and national green ambitions in the spotlight.
The surging prices could act as an impediment for the electric vehicle industry in the state. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order in 2021 banning new traditional gas vehicles by 2035 while President Joe Biden outlined a nationwide goal of having electric vehicles account for half of total car sales by 2030.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has repeatedly said Americans should buy electric vehicles to avoid the fluctuating costs of gasoline.
“It’s a huge problem,” Severin Borenstein, the director of the Energy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, told E&E News.
“Or we’re gonna mandate electrification and then there’s just going to be huge political blowback,” he added. “Mandating electrification when you’re charging people 30 or 40 cents a kilowatt-hour is going to be immensely expensive.”
Borenstein added that consumers may be discouraged to transition to electric vehicles if they hear about the high charging costs via word of mouth, according to E&E News.
The California Public Utilities Commission noted in a May 2021 industry report that it is “cheaper to fuel a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle than it is to charge an EV.”
Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) and San Diego Gas & Electric ( SDG&E) — the state’s three largest utility companies which provide more than 65% of California residents with power — said their average March bills were $149, $165 and $150 respectively, according to E&E News.
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But Slow Joe says we will save $500 per month by driving EVs. Who are you going to believe?
Nonsense! Everybody knows electricity comes from the wall socket.
DOH! Just don’t park them EVs in the garage.
This is why it's so important for Facebook, Apple, Google, and Twitter to keep suppressing misinformation. /s
If it’s bad, and it’s happening in the communist country of California, it makes me smile.
California hates oil and gasoline and natural gas.
To mitigate the gasoline and diesel shortage in the other 49 states, Big Oil should quit selling anything into California.
Then, electric cars will be sorely needed
It doesn't?
This whole sordid “green” fantasy just points out how the “invisible hand” over long periods of time optimizes the economy and systems. When government decides to change out two industries almost overnight (electricity generation and vehicles), it is sure to end in disaster. Almost everything government does or touches is a disaster.
I started work in the power business in 1973 when political interference was minimal and engineers ran power companies. I tested some new low NOX natural gas burners in 1974 in a power plant in Southern California that were the result of government environmental regulations. But government interference in the industry got worse and worse and worse in the ensuing 25 years and the lawyers and greens took over companies. It got to the point I just couldn’t take know-nothing government meddling any more and left the industry.
Who could have guessed this would happen, except anyone with a lick of common sense? But most of those have left, and none remaining have any political influence.
Nope, uh uhn, nobody saw this coming, nope nobody. The next blow comes with the lithium shortage.
Remember.... nothing is free.
My neighbor Chester, in between sips of beer, says you won’t even see it on your electricity bill. So, there all you know it alls!!
No problem. US Government and media have a lot of experience of lying, gas-lighting, and politically bullying Americans into believing manufactured, collective "truths," that contradict their own experiences as individuals.
Trump,should be pointing this,out at his rallies and telling folks that it’s only gonna get much worse after electric vehicles are required. Point out that this is a,ways how the left operates- they demand you do something, clsiming it is cheaper- then when everyone complies, they crank ghe prices up so noone can afford it.
The writing is on the wall. Transitioning to electric will ruin this nation! Whole,it’s fine for folks who want them, demandingmthat everyonemget them if they want to travel, will cause a massive shortage of electricity.
Ca.ifornia can’t even keep,up with electric demands now. They are a,ways having rolling brown-outs In the summer a.ready. adding millions,of vehicles to the problem won’t make it better- but alas there is no reasoning with rockheaded liberals
It’s the thought that counts...
Questioning that makes you guilty of spreading misinformation, Citizen.
For those NOT in California, just TRIPLE what you pay now and you’ll see the near future for you (but not Russia).
No cheap oil. No cheap coal (relatively speaking). No cheap electricity.
Crank up the nukes or EVs will be a distant memory. Not that that is a bad thing.
Wait to they get their charge for miles driven to make up for the State gas tax. So many add on fees are hidden. Hybrid seems a much better option for those wanting electric. My sister lives in a very rural area and likes her Jeep hybrid so far
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