Feel good lunacy!
Well, there goes the Salinas Valley! California just killed their last golden goose.
Exactly - they can do whatever they need to, to get their way. Ever wonder how the states manage to get wheelchair spaces in front of every business? They simply require a professional engineer to sign off on parking lot plans, knowing full well that the engineer will lose his license if he ‘forgets’ to tie up the best parking spaces for overweight women.
Just one example.
To a certain degree, this is the State telling farmers that 25% of their land now belongs to the state and will be used as the state dictates.
Why don’t they mandate all solar and electric cars? Why not windmills on cars, as long as the car is moving there would be enough power to turn a windmill. Free energy, right!?
They can vote for it but it can’t really happen because the money isn’t there for it.
These little fools in Cali so want to be big cheeses for the Paris Climate Accords.
Who cares about the little guys.
Satire. But it took me a while to catch on. :)
Yeah it’s California and they are that nuts. My sister lives in a townhouse villa in socal and they making all residents pay $8000 one time fee for a retaining wall restoration or $13000 in monthly installments. This is on top of the outrageous $400 MONTHLY HOH fees.
That “..all homes sold..” has an interesting implication:
Is there enough roof space to hold enough panels to power the house, regardless of house size?
How do they think that they’ll be able to pay for this?
Peeps, if you have an ounce of sense..... leave Cali NOW!!!
Not all homes are situated for solar even if they’re in appropriately sunny locales, and not all locales are sunny even in California. Problem 1.
Problem 2: not all farms are located in an area that gets sufficient wind to warrant a windmill or wind turbine. Even the most efficient low speed wind turbines just won’t work below 10 mph wind or so.
You can’t just legislate this stuff. I’m not opposed to either wind or solar, where it works. And, there are many places where it would work in California. But, a blanket edict via legislative or regulatory fiat is idiotic. Such determinations are highly individual based upon exposure, shade from other structures or trees, average cloud cover, average wind speed, etcetera.
Making a rule or requirement won’t make it work where it just won’t work.
Welcome to the hotel California. You can check in any time you like, but you can never leave.
And then they can tax them.
The headline is false. First, the article is about a law that has been proposed, not passed and signed. Second, the article says the requirement would apply to new houses and houses that are sold, excluding houses that don’t change hands.
I think the proposed law is a very bad idea ... but dangit, why can’t people just say things that are factually accurate?
There is a gulag that awaits any who resist, so decrees Chairman Moonbeam.
No wonder why a lot of people want out of CA. I got out in September 2016.
States rights. This might lead to innovation, if they can overcomes certain laws of physics. Just glad I don’t live in that state.
I didn’t have to read fine print. The difference between your headline and the first sentence are enough. There is a huge (not as huge in CA) difference between “requiring”(already law) and “introducing”(someone thinks it should be law). Before you start reading between the lines, read the lines first.