[ April 18, 2024 ]
California is a total disaster. The state has been plagued by high taxes, high crime, and increasing levels of poverty. This is due to the Democrat Party’s iron fist rule in the Golden State. The corrupt Democrat’s have super majorities in all major levels of government in California. A such, the Dems have been allowed to inflict massive damage on the once great state of California. Today California residents are fleeing the state in droves. California should be a warning to American’s as to what can happen to your state, and your city, and your neighborhood, should the Democrats take power in November.
Democrats Say California Is Model For Climate Action But Its Blackouts Say Otherwise
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At the Democratic National Convention this week, presidential and vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will make the case for spending $2 trillion, or $500 billion per year, to transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels toward renewables like solar and wind.
Biden has said he would not “tinker around the edges” with his plan. “We’re going to make historic investments that will seize the opportunity.”
In many respects, the Biden-Harris plan is even more aggressive than California’s. “The plan is very bold,” Leah Stokes of the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Financial Times. “There is no [US] state right now that has a target this ambitious.”
But California’s big bet on renewables, and shunning of natural gas and nuclear, is directly responsible for the state’s blackouts and high electricity prices.
“We will be forced today to ask utilities to cut off power to millions today, and tomorrow, and beyond,” said Stephen Berberich, the President and CEO of California’s Independent System Operator, CAISO, on a Monday morning conference call. “Demand will greatly exceed supply.”
The immediate cause of California’s blackouts is a mismatch between electricity supply and demand. Higher temperatures have led to greater demand for air conditioning. And California has less electricity, including from wind energy, available.
And yet, while California is hot, weather conditions are well within the normal range for the state’s summer weather.
The underlying reason blackouts are occurring is because California lacks reliable, in-state supply. And the reason for that is California has been closing both natural gas and nuclear power plants.
“People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said Berberich. “The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020…. We had San Onofre [nuclear plant] of 2,200 MW, and a number of other plants, totalling thousands of MW not there today.”
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20 Comments
3 years ago
3 years ago
A lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. That’s pathetic.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
The Green Commies shut down a lot of the dams. They MIGHT injure something pristine.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Except for Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy, which provides water and hydro power to San Francisco. Good for thee not for me says the leftist greenies of SF…
3 years ago
3 years ago
Bush fires in 6000 different places….
Not bad for a model climate action.
3 years ago
3 years ago
In this part of Commiefornia many have portable generators to keep our refrigerators and air conditioners running when Pacific Graft and Extortion (PG&E) cuts the power. There goes that green nonsense right out the window…
3 years ago
dems say allot of things, mostly not true and half truths….
3 years ago
CALIFORNIA IS A MODEL FOR ‘WHAT DOES NOT WORK’ AND WHAT ALWAYS FAILS: LIBERAL POLICIES
3 years ago
The power companies of this state, keep sending out messages (warnings) that they will have to cut power. California has been hot in the summer since it became a state and these utility companies respond every summer and act as though it’s a huge surprise to them there is such a power demand in the summer. Bullsh*t! They know.
And NOW, at least one power company here in CA, is now actively engaged in selectively turning off power to specific items (surprise, air codtioners) in people’s homes. Yep, they are effectively telling paying customers, ‘you don’t need ac’ and are turning them off in the middle of the night.
3 years ago
California is the model of FUBAR and SNAFU, combined together.
3 years ago
Imagine a windless night in winter. No solar or wind turbine electrical generation. The atomic energy plants have been shut down. President Kamala has a backup generator keeping her warm and with light. The rest of the country? Huddled together trying to keep warm and with battery powered radios listening to the outlawed subversive underground Make America Great With Oil radio.
The only means of natural gas generation is from the horse manure recycling plants. There just isn’t enough horses to go around, especially since the starving masses chose to eat their transportation rather than starve, behaving like the people of Venezuela did with their dogs, cats, zoo animals, and rats.
In Florida no more refugees coming from Cuba, or anywhere else. No air conditioning and the thermostat is at 97°F with 83% humidity. Food is available, but you have to walk a day to get some, and it is only fish. Fish, fish, fish.
Tesla isn’t doing so great. Not enough power generated to charge the electrical powered cars. Besides, a year of power for the car costs almost as much as the car itself.
California has rolling power shutdowns, usually lasting three days minimum.
Most northern cities are near deserted in winter as everyone headed south to keep warm. They return in summer.
Great plan, folks. The Green New Deal. Remember, AOC or her handlers came up with this, Biden pushed it, and after he was determined incompetent three months into his presidency Kamala took over and implemented the plan – in your mind you can hear and picture her laughing.
3 years ago
The state of California is the dead-ringer of Maoism. This state and its authoritarian, democratic government are the precursor to that which the faux-Democrats strive to make America; the mirror-image of the Peoples Republic of China.
3 years ago
When commies take over the first thing they wreck is the power grid, then the food supply chain. Just like what happened in Venezuela, now its starting in California. The last meat they’ll get to enjoy will be the zoo animals
3 years ago
The dirty secret is that WARREN BUFFET owns California’s power system and HE is making the calls for the rolling black outs. Why? To push Californians into agreeing with the Green New Deal! He’s as dirty and rotten as George Soros is!!
