Posted on 01/23/2023 8:14:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As California goes, so goes the nation, or so they say. If that rings true, the nation is set for a reversal of some of its strictest renewable energy plans, after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to dump its plan for 100% renewable energy...
Huntington Beach, California, is changing the plan it had in place with the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) - a nonprofit offering clean energy.
But its recent history in a rather unfavorable media limelight has given the city council pause.
And Huntington Beach wasn’t the first municipality to pull out - Orange County bailed on the green power authority, citing transparency concerns and a series of ugly audits, and allegations that the authority failed to inform the public that their electricity bills were increasing. Orange County was set to begin receiving green power from the authority by the end of this year. The cost of having the county pull out is estimated to be around $65 million.
For Huntington Beach, there were three plans before it when considering a change in plan:
to keep the 100% renewable energy plan as is,
to go with a “Smart Choice” plan offering 69% renewable energy,
or the “Basic Choice” plan that offered 38% renewable energy.
They opted for the Basic Choice plan in a vote of 4-3.
The city council’s change of plan drew criticism from some, while the council argued that the money saved from the pull-out could be better used on other projects, such as enforcing laws around homelessness.
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Finally woke up. (pun intended) Man Made Global Warming is a HOAX and FJB.
What no ‘Fairy Dust and Unicorn Farts’ Plans?
Mugged by reality. They won’t learn from it though.
So they opted for power service to be bad only 38% of the time. LOL
You’ve hit on the essential characteristic of liberals. The don’t learn probably because they won’t learn. Their belief in their phony ideology is so committed that the will not accept that they’re wrong. To learn from mistakes involves acknowledging that they made an error, and their egos just can’t allow them to do that.
Don’t they realize we’re going to run out of oil, like 10 years ago?
Los Angeles is on literally a sea of oil so naturally the city council recently voted to remove all the oil rigs in the county.
Huntington Beach oil rigs
https://www.google.com/search?q=Huntington+Beach+oil+rigs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmwN_ayN_8AhVnLEQIHXeWBhkQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1817&bih=907&dpr=1.28
Remember those oil derricks on the beach?
https://www.ocregister.com/2014/11/20/throwback-thursday-remember-those-oil-derricks-on-the-beach/
In 2012, citywide petroleum production was 2 million barrels, said Janice Van Mullen, hazardous material program specialist with the Huntington Beach Fire Department.
“It’s everywhere,” Van Mullen said. “They’ve been here forever and they’re still making money.”
Plan Rejected to Build $1.4B Ocean Water Desalination Plant in Huntington Beach
“Plan Rejected to Build $1.4B Ocean Water Desalination Plant in Huntington Beach”
That’s on the Coastal Commission, not the Huntington Beach City Counsel. Even Governor Gruesome wanted it built. Huntington Beach isn’t L.A. or San Fran. kind of leftist insanity.(yet)
...and oil and natural gas are renewables.
The last line says it all logic appears.
four months ago HB was denied a desal plant permit from the state
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