Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California (cue Ross Perot’s giant sucking sound) our governor turns up the volume.
Flashback:
While not the main theme at the moment (hostile state over-regulation of business is) the election reminder of “It’s the electricity, stupid” may someday be a yellow sticky note on some campaign consultant’s computer monitor.
WUWT reader DD More says:
Heard on the radio news this AM and looked it up.
California governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign legislation today requiring energy firms in California to generate 33 per cent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020, delivering one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the world.
Will you Cali-guys be starting a poll to guess the date someone in the state gives the Steve Holliday speech?
Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country’s grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won’t be available when the wind doesn’t blow, “The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that.
“We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
Texas has already dealt with the electrical issues of renewable energy:
We Spent Billions on Wind Power… and All I Got Was a Rolling Blackout
And, so far, California’s wind power doesn’t hold up so well:
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Torgeir Hansson,
Please refer to this chart before casting aspersions. Both parties are at fault, but Obama is 300% more at fault…
…note your ‘gaping deficit.’
“”””” hattip says:
April 13, 2011 at 8:09 am
Torgeir Hansson :”Whenever a post forays into politics like this one it loses credibility due to the many Tea Party mouth breathers it attracts.
I follow this site because it appeals to reason and pragmatism. The emanations from those quarters are neither.”
A wholly unsupported set of allegations. You offer nothing at all to support this–nothing but slander and insult. It is mere left wing cant. You are in fact guilty of what you accuse the “Tea Partiers” of – you are projecting. Moreover, you have no evidence at all that anyone here is even a member of the “Tea Party”. One hardly has to be in the “Tea Party” to deplore and detest the agenda of the Left: one merely need be a sane adult. One suspects that you have no real knowledge at all about the “Tea Party People” whatsoever; you merely believe what the Left’s propagandists tell you. How foolish of you.
Some really odd folks, those TEA partiers; some of them may be a little bit senile. For example, yesterday morning, I stopped by my Credit Union to borrow some money and get some checks to pay my US Federal Estimated Taxes for q1-2011, as well as for the rapacious State of California. So then I took off at about 3:30 PM to drive down to downtown San Jose’s Cesar Chavez Park (well known leftist rabble rouser) to attend a TEA Party rally to commemorate Tax day. Now I’m not a US citizen, so I don’t actually belong to ANY party; but I have and do attend rallies aimed at bringing Politician’s attention to concerns that voters and citizens (and also legal permanent resident aliens) often have. Such as the great Anti-MTBE EPA sponsored Environmental Pollution mandate protest.
And yes I do attend the local TEA party Tax Day rally.
Actually nobody but me showed up for yesterday’s rally, and when I checked my watch, it seemed that the date was only April 12 yesterday, and Tax day is April 15. Well this year you have till the 18th to pay your taxes, since the 15th is a Saturday. And I don’t know whether the rally is going to actually be held on Saturday or not, or whether it will be on the 18th. But it sure as hell wasn’t on the 12th. Damn I didn’t need to borrow that money after all, since Friday is payday.
And I came to the rally, without my gun, and my Bible; well I don’t have the former, and I probably know about half of the latter from memory; well that’s at least a 60 year old memory so I may have forgotten some. But I do know some of the US Constitution, and that is all you need to know to figure out when the gummint is screwing you.
But when I finally do go; when they have the real party, I expect to see the usual polyglot of people show up. You can find hell’s angels, and old grandmothers, and college kids; even a crowd of Latino illegales; there’ll be Africans (same as it says on Obama’s birth certificate) as well as Blacks, and Negroes, and Orientals,as well as other Asians, such as Bangladeshis, and their various cousins; Europeans both Western and formerly Eastern, and Russians, even some tired old white men like me. There’ll be mothers with their kids, and schoolteachers, and firemen; Doctors, and stock brokers, and truck drivers and plumbers. The San Jose Police will have a big contingent, who will stand in an orderly line up against a local building wall, and try to avoid falling asleep. Their official task will be to keep the peace, and make sure that the Code Pinkers, and other rent-a-mob regulars, don’t try to take over the rally from those who will have a three hour Permit to conduct their absolute right to peaceably assemble to petition their Government for redress of grievances (excessive taxation). The fully fake documented illegales, will have their signs clamoring for “immigrant’s rights”. Now I’m an Immigrant, and I’ve never been denied the same rights as every other person, whether citzen or immigrant. These “protesters/petitioners” will all have one common thread; nary a one of them has ever been anywhere near any immigration office or officer. That would seem to be a prerequisite for obtaining “immigrant’s rights” like I enjoy.
Well the SJ first reponders will do a good job of keeping the CPers, and the other “protesters” separated from the mottley bunch of TEA partiers; but the party will go on peacefully.
And other than what San Jose will feel they have to spend for extra Police attendance; all quite unnecessary, the city maintenance department, will reap a windfall, because all those crazy looney TEA partiers, will clean that Cesar Chavez park till it is cleaner than an Intel wafer fab clean room; and even the squirrels, and the crows, won’t find a scrap of jetsam anywhere in the park once the TPers get through with their rally.
Compare that to the Million Man March on Washington DC that turned the Nation’s Capital into a trampled landfill of junk and garbage, and broken windows, and other mayhem.
Yes Torgeir Hansson, those TEA Partiers are some nutty people; they actually believe that their Government should follow the laws of the land, and do just what they are Constitutionally instructed, and empowered to do.
But I will give you, that even TEA partiers, are supposed to know how to read the damn calendar, and not show up three to six days early.
“”””” Eric Gisin says:
April 12, 2011 at 7:56 pm
I cant’ wait until a major high-tech company announces it will be leaving California because of their energy policies. That will eventually lead to state bankrupcy. “”””””
Well Intel for one, now does its high tech manufacturing in Arizona, not California; and you can be sure it is not because of the ready nearby source of migrant workers. So their new $5B + wafer fab plant will be built there in the heat of Arizona, rather than the balmy idyllic weather of a Silicon Valley full of young highly educated hotshot engineers and scientists from every corner of the planet. I can’t tell you how many former Intel employees at all skills, I know, whose jobs were outsourced to to other places outside California.
The ignorance of politicians like old Moon Beam has absolutely no bounds. From what I have read and seen it is usually the one in the family with no skills that goes into politics. Averil (sp?) Harriman was a good example, his smart brother ran the railroads and he became a “noted statesman”. CA is getting the smoke from all the Chinese coal fired generators and the radioactive fall out from Japan and Moon Beam is worried about what pollution they will cause by burning coal in CA. The fallout from their industry would eventually head east at any rate along with the prevailing weather patterns.
Discussions near and dear to my heart.
I have been a minor-league California politician, have worked on energy
policy with the state, have designed, purchased, installed and run my
own PV system.
Recently I moved out of California.
It is not that the state is ungovernable. The people of the state have not
experienced enough pain to force the state to be governed well. The pain
will come as the producers leave.
Having run for office, I have spent a comparatively large amount of time
working on reforms to fix the State. As Reagan said, the solutions are
simple, but not easy. The bureaucracy does not want reform, neither do
the state unions, neither do those on the dole. Numerically, that is a strong
majority. The minority of us that are producers do not have the electoral
clout to address the problem. All the constitutional officers of the state,
plus the California Assembly and Senate are uninterested in fixing the state.
Before this last election season, I wrote up a plan to fix California. Of
course I lost the election — most of the electorate is not at all interested in
facing reality. So I moved out. My PV plant is packed up in a truck and
will be moved this weekend to my new home in another state. I see no
path between where we are now and where the state needs to get to to be
competitive that does not go through a rough, violent place.
I put this up on the Tips page a while ago but not sure if anyone read it. The California statute for renewables required purchasing a certain percentage of power by dollar value, not kW-h. Is this still the case w/ Gov. Brown? Is he actually proposing to purchase 33% of the power by the cost of production instead of the production? You all see the problem, right?
Will any of you bother to recognize that it is “Law Enforcement” who enable this? Do you REALLY think that Jerry, or ANY of his toadies, is actually going to do anything PHYSICAL to force this to happen? Instead, they will rely on “Law Enforcement”, aka Thugs with Guns, to force this to happen. Until enough of them rot where they belong, expect this to continue unabated.