Posted on 08/17/2020 3:54:20 PM PDT by Mariner
In response to a weekend of power outages caused by a heat wave of triple-digit temperatures, and ahead of anticipated blackouts through Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stark statement during a Monday press conference in response to the crisis: this can’t happen again.
Newsom said as governor, he was “ultimately accountable” for the energy failure that left some households without power on Friday and Saturday amid temperatures cruising past 100, and that he’d now “take responsibility to immediately address this issue and move forward to simply make sure this never happens again in the state of California.”
But he said he wasn’t alerted until Friday that California was at risk of rolling blackouts.
“Let me make this crystal clear,” Newsom said. “We failed to predict and plan these shortages, and that’s simply unacceptable.”
Californians up and down the state faced scorching heat this past weekend.
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When CA decided to force the public utilities to purchase all residential and commercial solar at RETAIL rates they removed incentive for the utilities to build more 24-hour X 365 generation.
After all, why put up $300 million when most of the time you cannot sell the power.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
More solar farms! More wind turbines!
He’s right.
Pretty soon no one will have any electricity so there will be no roaming blackouts :)
Just watch. His pinko “solution” will be mandated government control over every thermostat in the state.
What’s he gonna do? Wave a magic wand?
Like any good communist he’ll just order that no blackouts happen. See? Problem solved.
Some laws cannot be broken.
The law of economics is one of them.
Liberal CA politicians have created this mess. Now they are acting shocked. Idiots
Just wave a wand, sprinkle some fairy dust, tap your heels three times! All better now.
Well, the leftists who support him can support their local hippy candle shop and just have a great time. The golden state is an ugly brown. More popcorn!!!
Kids today can’t handle ten minutes without their gadgets.
The most short sighted, stupid generation ever.
If pols can't prepare for heat, they need to get out of the frickin' kitchen.
Yeah, and you have to plug in all those subsidized Tesla’s too...
Then there’s that. :)
Yer gonna have to take them green goggles off to see the problem.
Unacceptable? It was inevitable with people like him in charge.
Maybe solar or wind will help.
You retarded bastard.
You should see one of Seattle’s parking garages - it has a HUGE generating station on the roof to plug Tesla cars in when they park there...
Liberals and logic have never met.
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