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‘Simply unacceptable.’ Gavin Newsom says California rolling blackouts can’t happen again
The Sacramento Bee ^ | August 17th, 2020 | By Hannah Wiley and Dale Kasler

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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To: Mariner
“Let me make this crystal clear,” Newsom said. “We failed to predict and plan these shortages, and that’s simply unacceptable.”

Wow. He's a statesman, I tell ya. A statesman!

41 posted on 08/17/2020 4:27:17 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Mariner

They started to shut down at 88% capacity, and shut down at 94%. They’re not supposed to start until 92%, and they’re not supposed to shut down until 97%.

Newsom is not the only guy to smell a rat.


42 posted on 08/17/2020 4:27:59 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Mariner
He'll just do a Jimmy Carter and order that all thermostats be set to some minimum value. They won't be able to enforce for residential, but they will for commercial.

He could also order (and advertise) nominal increases in utility bills to encourage even the residential customers to crank up the thermostat.

43 posted on 08/17/2020 4:29:09 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanca)
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To: baclava

There gonna be a run on portable generations like crazy, lol, its power outage season! Better get yours now, crank em up!

* * *

And powered by? You guessed it, the evil fossil fuel that’s gonna burn out the planet it 10 years.

Can’t have that... Bwahaha!


44 posted on 08/17/2020 4:29:48 PM PDT by poconopundit (Iron fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Mariner

The problem is simply that the power companies didn’t know Governor Newsom considered the blackouts “simply unacceptable. Now that they know, I’m sure there will be no further problems.


45 posted on 08/17/2020 4:30:44 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("These transfer payments are fiscally unsustainable." ~Wall Street Journal)
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To: Mariner

Just tell all the electric car drivers to not charge for a week.


46 posted on 08/17/2020 4:30:50 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: Mariner

Gavin(under the truth serum): This is simply acceptable


47 posted on 08/17/2020 4:32:41 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“Even as they are slated to happen again repeatedly, today, this week and well into the future.”

If only someone had warned him years ago.


48 posted on 08/17/2020 4:32:50 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: Gamecock
More solar farms! More wind turbines!

I think someone (us) should pay for Greta's plane trip to CA. Make up leaked stories "Newsom insiders admit he won't allow Greta to speak."

Then pay for placard wielding demonstrators with bullhorns shouting "Let Greta Speak" outside his mansion all night. "Build More Solar Farms".

Wonder what Greta would say to the hostile masses huddled in the dark in the sweltering heat?

49 posted on 08/17/2020 4:32:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: dp0622

It gets better: the turbines break down and they are made of NON-recyclable material. They bury the blades.


50 posted on 08/17/2020 4:33:19 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

With the gyms closed, zero power generation from those fitness-crazed Californians on stationary bikes.


51 posted on 08/17/2020 4:34:03 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: decal

They’re all insane. And it’s more catchy than covid


52 posted on 08/17/2020 4:34:05 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: Mariner

Well, Gavin, it IS now happening again.
What do you think about that?
PG&E just left me a text, saying we may have more power outages between now and this Thursday.
There was no mention of having discussed this with the Governor first. You gonna let them get away with that?


53 posted on 08/17/2020 4:34:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: headstamp 2

California needs to build Power Points.


54 posted on 08/17/2020 4:36:44 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: poconopundit

“There gonna be a run on portable generations like crazy, lol, its power outage season! Better get yours now, crank em up!”

And small private generators are INCREDIBLY inefificient and expensive to own and operate, especially gasoline powered generators.


55 posted on 08/17/2020 4:39:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: TheConservativeTejano
We are conservative and I care how many birds are being killed by these wind farms.

You BEAST!!! What about the CHILLLLDREN???? Don't you even CARE about THEM????????

56 posted on 08/17/2020 4:45:02 PM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: Steely Tom
What’s he gonna do? Wave a magic wand?

He strikes me more as a weenie waver...

57 posted on 08/17/2020 4:46:11 PM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: Steely Tom
Trump owns the only one. LOL

Heck, the demonicRats wouldn't know what to do with it, if they
did have one.

They'd tax it out of existence.

58 posted on 08/17/2020 4:46:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Mariner

... move forward to simply make sure this never happens again in the state of California.”...

Supply and Demand. California is becoming a failed State. No new in-state energy production ... exploding legal and illegal immigration over the last 30 years. This ain’t complicated.


59 posted on 08/17/2020 4:47:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Mariner

Known

I signed recall petition yesterday

Be hilarious if you are recalled, which would end your 2024 aspirations


60 posted on 08/17/2020 4:50:35 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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