Newsom’s 2024 Climate Platform. Blackouts? No worries, mate. California is ‘just getting started,’ as the Governor signs 40 new laws.

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 20, 2022 | WSJ Editorial Board

[karpov]

California can barely keep the lights on as its climate policies bite the electric grid, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is undaunted. On Friday he signed no fewer than 40—count ’em 40—new climate bills to amp up California’s green-energy shock experiment.

Even as gasoline prices nationwide have fallen to an average $3.68 a gallon, Californians are still paying $5.45 a gallon. California’s electric rates are already more than double those in neighboring states. This is what happens when politicians try to eliminate fossil fuels with a Molotov cocktail of regulation, taxes, and renewable mandates and subsidies.

But Mr. Newsom blew right past that on Friday: “We’re not only doubling down, we’re just getting started.”

One new bill raises the state’s “clean electricity” mandate to 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2045. The state currently generates about a third of its power from renewables such as solar and wind, so utilities will have to start skewing investments even more to meet the new targets.

This will require a rapid and massive expansion of battery storage, manufacturing and technology that doesn’t exist. This will be hugely expensive if it can be done at all. Utilities will have to decide if it’s worth maintaining gas-fired plants that will soon have to shut down. More power outages, here we come.

Another new law would require that the state reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 85% below 1990 levels and achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2045. The state Air Resources Board would have free-wheeling power to impose regulations to achieve these benchmarks, including restricting new housing construction, manufacturing and agricultural production.

The Western States Petroleum Association says these new targets would cost every California household between $5,600 and $10,700 a year and increase the cost of building a new home by at least $50,000.

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[Pajamajan]

Democrats DESTROYED California.

They destroy everything they touch.

[dynoman]

50% EV penetration will increase the load on the grid by 4x. These politicians have no idea that what they are trying to do is impossible.

[LuxAerterna]

Newsom is a hack and a buffoon. Power outages and sky high gas and electric prices are minor annoyances and nothing more to him. It doesn’t bother crackpot base of his party, so it’s not going to bother him either. Besides, his social bubble in Martha’s Vineyard and the French Laundry are barely affected anyways, so why should he care?

[Hojczyk]

The Country will be Venezuela by 2024

[ken in texas]

- These politicians have no idea that what they are trying to do is impossible. -

And if you suggest to them that their ideas violate the laws of physics, some might reply "Then we'll just change or repeal those laws". /s

[ridesthemiles]

More California residents keeping the cost of rental trucks high.

[Tell It Right]

"50% EV penetration will increase the load on the grid by 4x. These politicians have no idea that what they are trying to do is impossible."

I'm having trouble with that #. 50%? Yes, mandating EV's is stooopid, especially while also mandating stooopid "green" energy at the utility level.

But 50% increase? I don't think so. For example, over this past week my house consumed 68kWh avg per day. Perhaps 10-15kWh of that each day was charging the EV. Yes, charging the EV adds to the load, but not a 50% increase.

[No name given]

The rich lefties won’t be affected, just shows you how selfish and evil they really are.

[dynoman]

Here’s the conversation, I may have it wrong;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuVn2Y2WCd4

[dynoman]

I watched it again. I had it wrong.

[dynoman]

I did the calculations for a local gas station pumping 200,000 gallons of gas and 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel per month. It would take a dedicated 30-40 MWs to replace that hydrocarbon fuel with electricity. That’s just one station in a small 100k metro area.

[dynoman]

LAX electrical comparison

48.6 million barrels per year JetA
133,150 barrels/day
5,548 barrels per hour
233,013 gallons per hour

128,100 BTUs per gallon Jet A
29,849,054,794 LAX BTUs per hour
8747894427 watt/hr equivalent
8,747 MW-hr equivalent

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant generates 2,256 MW of power.

It would take the equivalent of almost four Diablo Canyon nuclear power plants to charge electric airplanes equal those currently flying out of LAX.

[citizen]

Once the EV mandates are in swing, I expect Kalifornia (and other states/locales) to exempt various types & classes of vehicles from inclusion in the calculations for EV mandate compliance.

Iow, they will falsify the numbers and declare victory.

[Tell It Right]

"I did the calculations for a local gas station pumping 200,000 gallons of gas and 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel per month. It would take a dedicated 30-40 MWs to replace that hydrocarbon fuel with electricity. That’s just one station in a small 100k metro area."

I'm 100% with you on hydrocarbons being a reliable and cheap energy source. That's why I still have an ICE pickup for the times an EV won't cut it. The problem is I can't drill my own oil and refine it into gasoline -- the government can regulate that away by making it too expensive. The same with natural gas. The same with coal. With hydrocarbons it's not the physical science that's the problem -- it's the political science.

That's why I have a large solar array and drive most of my miles in an EV. Energy is now one less way the Dims can control my family through cost hikes and supply restrictions.

[citizen]

Energy is now one less way the Dims can control my family through cost hikes and supply restrictions.

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Really? Perhaps for the near term...not that I am scoffing at your sensible efforts.

But coming for us all will be additional mandates, increased energy taxes & restrictions, power generation surcharges even as the supply diminishes. Annnd...they can't have people with "large solar arrays" not paying their fair share, so some such as a 'source generation fee' and/or a 'utility adjunct fee', etc., will likely come along.

Not wishing to go to my final resting place any sooner than it must be, I hope to be around long enough to see how things play out in the coming years.

[Tell It Right]

"But coming for us all will be additional mandates, increased energy taxes & restrictions, power generation surcharges..."

You and I think a lot alike. I think you missed the word "now" in my: "Energy is now one less way the Dims can control my family through cost hikes and supply restrictions." Right now I'm winning the battle.

To summarize, I think it's a losing proposition for you or I to say to ourselves: "Since I can't account for any possible scenario the Dims could throw at me I won't even bother trying to wean my family from their control over us." If we reach that point we've truly lost. The people who formed this country had many more reasons than us to believe it was hopeless to try to be free from government control. I'm glad they didn't give in just from an inability to account for all possible variables.

[citizen]

My best good luck to you and hang in there!

[Ex gun maker.]

“and increase the cost of building a new home by at least $50,000”.

So KALI will soon have only two classes of citizen.
The super rich living like kings, and their barely getting by serfs.
Many of the serfs will be illegals, no questions asked.

For those fleeing, Nevada is full.

[Elsie]

Newsom is a hack and a buffoon.

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After Solomon died, his son Rehoboam became king, and Jeroboam returned from Egypt (1 Kings 12:1–2).

 

But Rehoboam was a vain and foolish man.

 

Jeroboam, a “mighty man of valor,” warned Rehoboam not to make the same mistake his father had made by taxing them heavily to finance a luxurious lifestyle (verses 3–4).

 

Rehoboam defied the advice to lighten the yoke of oppression: “My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions!” (1 Kings 12:14).

 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Rehoboam-and-Jeroboam.html