Posted on 08/31/2022 9:32:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California’s energy overseer warned of blackouts starting Wednesday and urged residents to “avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles, and turn off unnecessary lights.”
The state also wants those thermostats set no lower than 78 degrees.
Called a Flex Alert, the California Independent System Operator says households should “reduce energy use from 4-9 p.m. when the system is most stressed because demand for electricity remains high and there is less solar energy available.”
“The power grid operator,” the notice says, “expects to call on Californians for voluntary energy conservation via Flex alerts over the long weekend.”
And not drive anywhere, I suppose, if you’re the owner of one of the nearly half-million plug-in EVs registered in the Golden State.
I remember a night in college when it was just too hot to sleep, so I went to the parking lot, started my car, cranked the A/C to max, let it run for a bit, and then finally got some shut-eye in my cooled-off, gas-burning Ford.
Call me crazy, but you’d think that a state subject to heatwaves — not to mention those seemingly inevitable sundowns — would make itself less reliant on solar power and electric vehicles.
To be fair, the state is expecting a record-breaking heat wave from north to south. Then again, if Sacramento still took seriously the needs of its own people, it’d be building desalination plants and nuclear facilities to power them. That would take care of Cali’s two most enduring problems: Heat and drought.
Instead, the state is actively tearing down water infrastructure, even though its existing water system was built for a much smaller population than it has today. It’s eliminating power plants, too, at a time when the government is actively — and expensively — encouraging residents to switch to electric vehicles.
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Another two years and I’m outta here!
No electricity, uncharged EVs, during the CA fire season. Perfect storm.
No gas, no electric. But You can still drive downhill folks.
Get those Soap Box Derby cars ready!
What a State of Democracy! Armpit of America.
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
Back to the Future!!! ROTFL. We’ll all be driving Flintstonemobiles next.
Welcome to the Dark Ages libtards! You won’t learn your lesson, so suffer in misery. We don’t give a damn about you.
>>>Another two years and I’m outta here!
Biden did that?
Many have been saying that thing are really going to go south starting in September.
Better stock up on unicorn farts!
The fire is getting closer and we’ve been ordered to evacuate. But we can’t because we were told not to charge the car due to lack of power.
This is just the start of the chaos in their efforts to keep all on a short leash.
That would take care of Cali’s two most enduring problems: Heat and drought.
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A blind man could see that California’s two most ENDURING problems are “Liberal/Marxist Voters” electing “Liberal/Marxist politicians.
I think tens of millions of non California Americans are delighted to see California Communist Voters and Politicians getting their come uppance. EV OWNERS....!!! Try your thumb!
Now way. I feel for the non city dwellers who voted for none of this and until we wall off that s-hole the parasites simply move to greener pastures once things become untenable.
Him and Nuisance. They suck big time donkey dic...s.
Fun to watch?
It would be if they and others were not hell bent for leather to push this crap on all the rest of us.
Time to buy a new pair of walking shoes, suckers
I recommend turning off AC in all govt buildings in Calif.
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