Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Governor Newsom, “we no longer need to drill things or extract things to advance our economic goals”.
Gavin Newsom signs order banning sales of gas-powered cars in California by 2035
BY LARA KORTE SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 10:32 AM
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring the sale of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, a move the governor says would achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and move the state further away from relying on climate change-causing fossil fuels.
“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom said. “For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe. You deserve to have a car that doesn’t give your kids asthma. Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse – and create more days filled with smoky air. Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.”
His announcement comes on the heels of one of the most disastrous climate events in California’s history. The state is still battling wildfires, which have burned a record 3.6 million acres.
Newsom for weeks has cited climate change as a major contributing factor, and has called on federal officials, including President Donald Trump, to take more aggressive action on clean energy.
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Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article245948120.html
The following is a tweet from Governor Newsom. The announcement starts at 4:45.
Newsom hopes everyone will follow California’s lead, but why would anyone else want to copy California’s slow moving energy disaster? The more engineering literate amongst us might have noticed that, thanks to renewables, California can barely keep their lights on. More unreliable renewables will just make this situation worse.
Adding millions of energy hungry electric vehicles, many of whose owners would want to charge at night, would be unlikely to improve California’s unstable renewable energy grid.
Governor Newsom in his interview said “we no longer need to drill things or extract things to advance our economic goals” (see the Twitter video above).
Every study I have seen about renewables suggests that any serious attempt to go 100% renewable would require far more drilling and extracting than a fossil fuel powered economy, like a 2700% increase in lithium extraction. Even carbon intensive cement production would have to increase substantially – all those wind turbines and solar panels need cement bases.
Manufacturing cement largely consists of heating limestone or other Calcium Carbonates to 825C (1517F) degrees, to separate the limestone into Calcium Oxide and CO2. There is a lot of CO2 in limestone. Current cement manufacture accounts for 8% of global annual CO2 emissions. Cement does not last forever. A substantial permanent increase in global cement production would pretty much cancel any CO2 savings from going renewable.
Between clearing wilderness areas for wind turbines and solar arrays, and turning what is left of the state into a vast open pit mine to feed the mineral hungry renewables industry, going renewable would devastate California’s environment.
I guess there would be one small silver lining to the Newsom push to turn the State of California into a Renewable Energy extractive wasteland. The few scraps of forest and wilderness which would survive the push for renewables would no longer pose much of a forest fire hazard.
Of course it is possible Governor Newsom is aware of all this (h/t Charles the Moderator).
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Oh My Dog!! What a maroon!
We need to stop extracting sunlight from the sky
…..We need to stop extracting sunlight from the sky..
Brings to mind Gulliver’s Travels, and his journey to Lagado to meet the inventor who was perfecting the extraction of sunbeams from cucumbers to warm the Governor’s garden in inclement weather. At the end of the tour the inventor held his hand out for a donation to finish the project! Sound familiar?
Johnathan Swift was quite a prescient for an eighteenth century Irish vicar !
Cheers
Mike
If he really believed his own BS, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to ban selling gas?
“we no longer need to drill things or extract things to advance our economic goals”. Amazing, that he believes they manufacture electric cars, wind turbines and solar cells from thin air.
How long till griff proclaims that this order proves that electric cars are viable and economical.
Absolutely, if they were viable and economical no legislation would be required mandating their use.
If ALL Greens felt EVs were necessary and acted accordingly, again no legislation would be needed (doesn’t a vast majority [97%] agree that something needs to be done?) just quit being hypocritical and put your money where your mouth is.
Always amazes me how those who apparently disagree strongly with Griff do such a great job of posting his views for him in his absence.
I’m sure he will be flattered by the importance you accord him. You just made his presence here so much more effective.
You amaze easily.
griff’s responses, like that of most alarmist trolls, are so predictable because he repeats them so often. What would be truly amazing is if s/he made a response that wasn’t so easily predicted.
Greg’s is called a ‘deliberate opinion’.
Going by Griff’s first name, he is a he.
I bet ole Griff didn’t know I know his first name. 🙂
Since he decided not to use it (except for that one time:), I won’t mention it here.
+1 Like him or not he’s an effective troll for this site.
Ridicule is actually praise? Is that really the position you want to take?
When I reply to him, I make sure he doesn’t feel flattered.
Maybe he’s like Simon, and actually likes the abuse.
‘How long till griff proclaims that this order proves that electric cars are viable and economical.’
8:43 a.m. He’s got links too. Some self-serving bullshit as always.
How are they going to drive away from the fires?
They wont !!
maybe that’s part of the plan to reduce the population ???
The perpetual fires will replace lighting lost to rolling blackouts! See how easy that problem was solved?
In a Tesla ( assuming the battery is charged and that the Tesla website is not down so that they can open and start their with these “smart” phone ).
Today Tesla owners who are too dumb to have a backup method of opening their cars are raging at Elon Musk because the server is down and there’s not backup. You’d need to be a liberal to have that kind of a lack of self awareness.
Darwin says : anyone stupid enough to rely on a hand held computer and a global network to access essential, life-saving, personal transport deserves to die in a forest fire.
Newsom’s idiots virtue signalling will not make one iota of difference to global warming or forest fires but will affect the ability of citizens to flee.
The electric fire appliances and electric helicopters will be great for the fire dept. too.
They will drive away in their concrete vehicles– made from cement, one of several ingredients in the concrete bases that Eric describes. The other ingredients are drinkable water, air, coarse and fine aggregate and other additives. Just sayin”. Cement is the term always used by the less technical among us. I call them the 98% ers.
In the last few years, here in North Carolina, we have been seeing more and more California tags.
Twelve years ago, I would have been one of those CA tags – but I swear I came here to get away from California idiocy, not to spread it!
It is the smart ones who are leaving. Why continue to put up with, high cost of living, high taxes, wildfires that could have been prevented, mud slides, and worst of all, so called progressive politics.
I’m not convinced that’s the case, though – because they move here to NC, or to TX, or other places, and then push for the exact same policies they left.
Only the misguided ones that bring their “progressive politics” with them.
That’s too bad. Some ‘from’ are good
Just like in Vermont where we’re seeing more New York tags.
There goes the neighborhood…
The critical point for electric power is storage. Are we going to stop mining lithium and cobalt too? Elon’s new battery tech at 16% improvement is a pretty big jump. In the 20 years I worked in solar energy research the avg PV efficiency went from 15% to 19%.
We don’t have to assume electric power. Folks are working hard on ammonia fuel. The most interest, from a practical point of view, seems to be from the shipping industry. It’s very attractive there because the giant diesel engines ships currently use could be converted to burn ammonia with not too much trouble.
This link describes work on an ammonia powered tugboat.
It’s not impossible that the future of automobiles and trucks will continue to be with internal combustion engines. That said, over the years I have followed a number of interesting energy projects that reached at least the pilot plant stage. None of them succeeded. On that basis you could bet against the widespread use of ammonia as vehicle fuel.
Ammonia does NOT occur naturally in large quantities on our planet earth. Venus, Saturn and Jupiter are another matter. To produce ammonia it requires BIG power to run large high pressure compressors and OH MY GAWD natural gas to supply the feed stock for the Hydrogen. That is the most common industrial process for ammonia. The nitrogen is usually supplied by using the atmosphere around the production plant.
One great drawback to using ammonia for a fuel is that it is highly poisonous in its raw form and if you have ever had the unfortunate occurrence to be gassed by this chemical it is not a great day I can tell you. In higher concentrations it can extremely damage human airways and lungs and in higher concentrations it can explode with the right fuel air mixtures. As an alternative to gasoline I think if you were to look at the energy in and the energy out required to manufacture ammonia it takes more energy to manufacture ammonia than you can get out of it by burning it in an engine.
Ammonia as fuel is exceeds the insanity required to suggest hydrogen as fuel.
Both are highly dangerous and require energy to create them, thus they are a form of energy storage and IN NO WAY address the question of where the source of that energy is coming from.
Natural gas and coal are relative late comers in ammonia production. In most of the 20th century, the hydrogen needed to make ammonia was produced by electrolyzing water. link
Read what I wrote more carefully.
1 – Ammonia can be produced using ‘renewable’ electricity.
2 – Ammonia can be burned in conventional internal combustion engines.
3 – The marine industry can continue building ships the way they have done. They won’t lose their investment if they’re forced to switch to ammonia fuel. In the mean time, they can continue burning bunker fuel.
I wouldn’t think NH3 would be a good substitute. It isn’t a good gas to breath. Too many leaks in a normal IC setup so this stuff would be vented into the atmosphere all around us. Plus it is a relatively low energy density fuel and has a very narrow flammability range. It is lighter than air so it would rise to the top of the atmosphere and who knows what problems that would create.
Maybe it could be used as a lifting gas and we could float from place to place instead of driving.
95% of Hydrogen produced commercially is made in steam-methane reformers. Electrolysis is inefficient. High temperature steam electrolysis could theoretically be viably efficient, but no one has done it on a commercial scale. Also, you need to make steam.
There was a company in Florida called Apollo Energy that developed fuel cells that ran on ammonia. I did a review of their tech for a related project back around 2012. Interesting but not economically practical. Plus anhydrous ammonia is a bit scary to work with.
I checked on the company recently. It appears they are no longer around.
” In most of the 20th century, the hydrogen needed to make ammonia was produced by electrolyzing water.”
More careful wording?
A more accurate statement would be: In the 20th century, a small part of the hydrogen needed to make ammonia was produced by electrolyzing water.
Your link states that millions of tons of hydrogen were produced by electrolysis in C20 but production was curtailed. Careful wording again as “millions of tons” in the whole century is miniscule compared to the output from steam reforming.
You shouldn’t place too much faith in that link, if their knowledge of history is any indication. The Haber-Bosch process was in full production at Oppau in 1913, not the 1920s as they state.
“Elon’s new battery tech at 16% improvement is…”
??
The improvement is larger packaging and removal of tab – i.e. it’s all package geometry. Energy density per kg went down, but by volume it went up 16%. No real chemistry improvement.
This reminds me of when they announced the Seqway. In the weeks leading up to it, they were claiming that the announcement was going to be a world changer, nothing would be the same after word.
After the announcement. Other than mall cops, nobody noticed.
Is it just me, or does The Gavin look dumber than a box of bent screws in that photo?
I haven’t seen a stare that vacant in a very, very long time.
It’s the liberal fake smile.
And his robotic, studied hand gestures. He comes off soooo phoney. And his mousey trophy wife as well. “Image is everything.”
Harris’ is the epitome of the false smile: her lower lids come half way up eyes. This is a key component of the fake smile. Just try doing it see how stupid and false you feel.
Could that be why the Democrats are hiding her from the press?
Dumber than a box of bent screws?
Never heard that one before, Sara, and I like it. Thanks. It made me laugh.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Regards,
Bob
Always, Bob T. And you, too, and make sure you have your favorite treats on hand when you’re stocking the pantry.
Screwier than a box of bent dummies.
I have: Joe Biden. And to think, these leftists hold CA up as a model. 🤮
Sara
Dumber than a rock in a box — or the person who buys it to make it into a pet. Spencer’s Third Law: More than half of adults have an IQ below 100. And I suspect that many of them go into politics because they can’t even get a job to teach teachers.
Now careful what you intone about the Venerated Pet Rock
OH, I go rock hunting a lot. I use the best ones, like an iron ore concretion, as paperweights. Cost me nothing and I get free O2 out of it, too, on my walkies. 🙂 I’ve found Carboniferous fossils like a shrimp and a plant called Alethopteris (an ancient seed fern). I just take them home and give them a job holding stuff down.
I need to get a book on geology that IDs rocks and when they formed. I’ll find one (or several) this winter. If you move to an Earth-type planet, you should know enough about geology to know which rocks are what and how they formed, right?
You all keep the home fires burning, and stock the pantry. National Weather Service says we’re going to get whacked with a blast from Santa’s back yard (depending on where you are, of course), so I’ve procured plenty of popcorn, soda and stuff to make a hearty soup. (If you’re on the back side of that, the heat will continue, from the way the jet stream projection looks.)
Sara,
There is a wonderful book titled: Prehistoric life, The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, published by Dorling Kindersley.
It is a beautiful book filled with pictures and stunning graphics; better than a visit to a natural history museum. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in the history of life on Earth.
Thank you!!!
I worked at a store that sold pet rocks during the craze. People would steal the rocks from the boxes. We went out to the parking lot for replacements.
That’s funny. 🙂
They’re not that bent, dammit! Warped perhaps. );
It’s a feature – for fixing noggins, perhaps.
Actually, Sara, it is quite difficult for most people to take a posed photograph and look anything other than kind of stupid. All my passport and driver’s license photos make me look strained and uncomfortable. Professional actors and models probably have some trick of imagination they use, such that their head shots make them look like they have minds and souls.
A fun google image search is celebrity high school yearbook photos. Guys like Gregory Peck and Clint Eastwood look kind of dorkish, because they haven’t yet learned the trick.
“such that their head shots make them look like they have minds and souls.”
As Bill Clinton is reported as saying, “Once you learn to fake sincerity, everything else is easy.”
“I haven’t seen a stare that vacant in a very, very long time.”
Newsome has the same look as Joe Biden. Of course, Joe usually hides his face behind a mask, but he can’t hide those vacant eyes, or the gibberish when he speaks.
I can’t believe this guy is the Democrat nominee. Trump ought to win in a landslide.
One of the alarming things in this world is the extent to which thoughtlessly ‘woke’ regimes tend to imitate one another.
In this case, Boris Johnson’s administration in the UK has already made the decision to do a phased in ban of all regular fueled passenger vehicles, so I suppose California couldn’t dare be left behind in this lunacy?
Yeah, and what could possibly go wrong when about one in ten cars are parked on the street instead of in a garage? How about extension cords draped over every few metres of pavement (sidewalk)?
And don’t get me started on the electrical infrastructure required even if they solve that one.
It seems as if critical thinking skills have been lost over the years.
You missed the goal. It is to cut the number of cars to a tenth of what we have now. Only those who have a garage… And this way it affects the electrical infrastructure not a bit.
I suspect that the number of cars not in garages is a lot higher than 10%.
I have seen an insurance estimate that 75% of US cars are parked outside. They keep the statistic because of hail damage claims.
Having lived in London for a few years, I can safely say that in big cities, only the RICH have off-street parking. And then there are the apartment blocks, with zero parking and about 4-6 flats per car space on the (no-parking signed) street!
Or maybe the WHOLE purpose is to remove private transport from those ‘oiks’ who really don’t deserve it!
If you charge you car at night it will be With carbon based electricity. (we even pump water uphill at night when electricity is cheap in order to generate power during the day.)
If you charge during the day the grid will be overwhelmed in the summer.
PG & E is already running ads suggesting getting a backup generator. Every home will have one to charge their car.
Probably likely they’ll use more generator fuel to charge the vehicles than what would have been used if they just filled up and drove around in an ICE car !
And the emissions from the generator won’t be nearly as clean as it would be burning the hydro carbons in a modern ICE car.
This is what’s happening in the UK. When my energy supplier wanted to fit a smart meter I refused. I could see what was coming.
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/electric-cars/353209/energy-firms-want-right-switch-electric-cars-charging-home
Wonder where you’ll get the gas for it? If you were going about banning ICE cars, wouldn’t you just hit the lawn department while you were at it?
Airports. The good: Higher octane. The bad: the lead in the fuel will destroy your catalytic converter
One of PG&E’s blackout prevention suggestions is to not charge electric vehicles during daylight high energy use hours.
So their currant problem is not having enough reliable electricity to turn on AC in the evening when they get off work. Does this governor know how they will increase the available energy in 15 years so they can plug in all their cars and turn on the AC? I really don’t know but that would have to be about a 100% increase in demand in 15 years when they are running on the fine edge now.
“So their currant problem”
That would definitely get them in a jam.
Appologies to my friends and relatives in this USA state:
For you recent graduates, here is a multiple-choice quiz with two bonus questions.
(If you believe it’s your right not to be offended, please skip.)
For 10 points, which single USA state best fits all of the following descriptions?
This state has the 5th largest economy in the world (wikipedia.org)
This state is a leader in green energy and environmental regulations
This state ranks 1st in total imports with 441 billion annually (14.6% of GDP – wikipedia.org)
The #1 import country into this state:
– consumes over 7 times as much coal as the entire USA (statista.com)
– has a communist government that has engineered a “compliant” workforce at the expence of human rights
– plans for expansion and global domination
This state is corporate headquarters to Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, VISA, Tesla, and Adobe with combined market capitalization of 5,500 B (ycharts.com – listed in order of descending market cap)
This state is NOT the home of ExxonMobil (aka Big Oil) with market capitalization of 178 B, which is less than Adobe (ycharts.com) (divest in ExxonMobil = defund Texas)
This state has 18 of the top 25 wealthiest zip codes in the USA
Choose one answer:
A. Mississippi
B. Vermont
C. California
D. None of the above
Bonus points:
4 bonus point essay: Has the state chosen above become the “New Old South” in part by leveraging low-cost “compliant” non-US labor? (Please include reasons for and against with references.)
1 bonus point multiple choice: Which state above (A, B, or C) was the richest in the country prior to the Civil War?
No s-tag needed . . . This is food for thought . . .
Newsom knows he won’t be around in 2035 to face up to his loony edicts, just like most politicians, bureaucrats, academics, media and activists. (Sorry those last 5 references amount to tautology)
Yep, Newsom and his predecessor, Jerry Brown, can enjoy their retirement years together riding back and forth the 160 miles between the metropolis of Bakersfield and the metropolis of Merced on the California “bullet train”. There will certainly be enough room in the passenger cars of that HSR boondoggle so that they can slap each other on the back over the great accomplishments they did “serving the people”.
Except for the fact that have instead “served it to” the people.
Perhaps it is a pea and thimble trick. A dramatic announcement focuses the public’s attention on ‘climate change’ and subtly diverts attention away from other issues concerning the wildfires.
But is all this talk about fossil-fuel-free transport just more ‘baby talk’? This article on heavy trucks contains interesting statistics and insights:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/pepsico-orders-100-of-teslas-all-electric-semi-trucks/
In other news: Sacramento trial lawyers were seen drunkenly celebrating the guarantee of work for years to come.
Does Newsome even have the power to ban the sale of an otherwise legal product? Where is the enabling legislation for this?
D,J. Hawkins-
Newsome probably does NOT have the power to require the sale of only zero-emission vehicles in California, (Note this is different from banning the sale of vehicles with IC engines). Trump took away the Federal permission for California to set their own emission standards, so they must use the Federal standards. Even when they could set their own standards, the US EPA still had to approve them.
So my take is that he is just pandering to greens. He has gotten a lot of headlines for it. But, no, he can’t actually do it.
Not having the power to do something doesn’t appear to have stopped a lot of governors from doing things recently. Unless there is resistance, he has the power simply by implied consent, whether that power is legitimate or not.
California homes will need to stock up on backup gasoline power generators.
Where is the gasoline going to come from? Gas stations will quickly DISSAPPEAR. More like natural gas if you can get a connection.
Privately owned power generators soon will be verboten.
Wish I could add a /sarc here.
Looks like this means the end of car dealerships in California by 2035. Folks will need to cross the State borders to Oregon, Nevada and Arizona to buy a car. If they have any sense, they won’t bother making the return journey.
Exactly….anyone who is able (assuming they still want to live in CA) will cross the border into Nevada or Arizona and purchase cars and trucks there. This will be great for car dealerships in neighboring states and not good for in-state dealerships.
That said, I think this nonsense will be shot down by lawsuits brought by all sorts of businesses that could never depend on fully electric vehicles. Also, considering there are lots of farms in CA, there’s no way farmers will be able to get by without gas or diesel powered pickup trucks (not to mention farm equipment; no idea if Gov. Nuisance would consider exempting those engines). No (or fewer) farms and there will be a lot less food available in nationwide grocery stores.
That is even assuming that they will have the Mined Materials necessary to create all those EVs.
It would require ALL the current quantity of globally mined copper alone (and that is without allowing for the Double that which the U.K. would require to do the same by the same date).
In re: grocery stores: some of the fresh stuff I purchase comes from Mexico in the winter, and I”m up here in the Midwest just below the Wisconsin state line. Some stuff comes from Florida, such as strawberries in winter, and when I check labels on fresh stuff, I’m finding that it’s grown in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida, and there are even locally-grown things like fresh cooking herbs grown and packed in greenhouses a few miles away from me.
I’m much more aware of these things than I used to be, and frankly, I seldom see any produce that comes from California at all. Apples come from a restaurant north of me about 20 miles, with a 150 acre apple orchard. They make their own cider, too. They also sell peaches, cherries and strawberries, but you have to order this stuff ahead of time. In this [don’t come near me] environment, they’ll bring it to your car at the curb. Plenty of similar orchards and market garden farms around here, too.
I don’t know what California does, other than make “seen it before” retread movies and TV shows, and have earthquakes, but nothing on my table comes from that state. Seriously, if I want trout, I can get a boat and go out on Lake Michigan to catch steelheads and lake trout and perch.
There’s another item: there are a few farms west of me that raise grass-fed beef cattle and will offer a half steer, cut and wrapped and flash frozen for a reasonable price. Half a steer would fit into a 5.0 cubic foot freezer and still leave room for green beans, chopped veggies for soup and stew, and bacon.
So seriously, what does California offer other than bad land management, greedy government, and self-important political twits???? What DOES LaLaLand really offer that the rest of the country doesn’t already have?
That clown is completely crackers.
Is there anybody in Calizuela who comprehends why their electricity costs 3× more than the national average?
What a moron.
We could save a lot of money by dispensing with our legislature and just let the Governor rule by decree.
The world going to end before 2035 AD.
The long lasting Dem racists party will have finally ceased to be = end of world.
A new world will begin- without any need of the zombie freaks on the streets.
I wish would happen faster, but, these train wrecks do tend to be slow process.
Will this destroy part of their tourist industry as there would not be any gas stations to refuel the cars coming into California from the states that allow fossil-fuel vehicles?
CA’s governor is too stupid to ever consider these possible consequences of such an action. For a while (assuming this stupidity were ever to come to pass) gas stations would continue to exist (unless they were also banned) because there would still be a huge number of gas and diesel powered cars on the roads. Cars in CA tend to last longer (due to little rain/dry climate) which is a good thing because I can guarantee that more people than ever would hold onto their vehicles as long as they possibly can. Meaning those people who won’t (or can’t) move out of CA…. Also there would be a surge in demand for auto mechanics as people make desperate attempts to keep their gas powered cars running as long as possible.
Let’s see . . . the various levels of State, county and local governmental bureaucracy within California must own over 1 million ICE cars in total. Replacing each at a projected bulk purchase cost of, say, $30,000 each amounts to an expense of $30 billion. And where is this money to come from?
Can you too say “BK”?
Look at the example of Cuba where old cars from the 1950s have been kept going by mechanics.
Depreciation on these vehicles must be minimal, and as any accountant will tell you a major part of the cost of running a car is the depreciation.
That’s the problem: there is never any consideration of the consequences of these actions.
Re no gas stations: that’s the answer right there! Exxon should stop selling gas in California immediately on order to show how green they are, and how much they want to help the state meet its goals.
So can they buy gas cars from neighboring states and bring them into California to drive?
Step 1: ban the sale
Step 2: ban the use
Step 3: ban the ownership
Step 4: invoke criminal charges against those who fail to submit any of the above.
The near genius Premier of BC, Horgan, made a similar announcement, while simultaneously blocking new pipelines.
Then he complained about the price of gasoline, and wondered why no one was coming forward to build new refineries in BC.
This level of stupid cannot be matched, Newsome is still in little league
Hello Pat
We in Alberta would like it better if you would kindly keep your Ecar’s in BC rather than coming to Alberta to try and commit suicide on on our highways.
Alberta RCMP charge driver allegedly sleeping in a self-driving, speeding Tesla on Highway 2
https://globalnews.ca/news/7340881/driver-sleeping-iself-driving-speeding-telsa-qeii/
Priceless. I recently drove a car that someone had driven down into my AO from Ontario. I had to remember that on the metric dashboard, 100 means 62 mph not 100 mph.
“Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse – and create more days filled with smoky air. Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.” — Gavin Newsom
Hint for you Gavin, they don’t.
“Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse – and create more days filled with smoky air.”
Hint for you Gordon, they do … ever seen a Tesla on fire
Well, I’ve also seen videos of passenger airplanes on fire 🙂
So I guess Newsom didn’t go far enough.
Imagine thinking you can legislate for the year 2035. Maybe, next, the CA gov’t can start working on laws for the first Mars Colony.
Ok.
So, with first colony Mars, what do you tax the most or as equally important,
what do start taxing, first.
I’ll just have to stop posting my comments about so-called “renewables”. It’s getting boring pointing out that solar PV and wind turbines are not net energy producers. They are subsidy farms which cause a net increase in CO2 emissions, which is their claimed purpose.
Please don’t refer to them as ‘farms’, as the lefties invented that term to make them sound warm, fuzzy and useful. Let’s just call them ‘installations’, or even better, ‘blights.’
Subsidy Mines
It is unfortunate that I live in California that is currently under control of these foolish despots.
You can thank illegal immigration for granting California’s communists not just a majority, but a veto-proof majority. It is axiomatic…There is no such thing as cheap labor.
I’ve never seen a better reason to vote Republican at every level of government than this ignorant nonsense. Hopefully Californians will see the light and vote this buffoon out of office.
Hahaha….that was a good one.