Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t M; California Governor Gavin Newsom doubling down on the climate policies which are destroying quality of life for ordinary Californians.
Newsom’s 2024 Climate Platform
Blackouts? No worries, mate. California is ‘just getting started,’ as the Governor signs 40 new laws.
By The Editorial Board
Sept. 20, 2022 6:44 pm ETCalifornia can barely keep the lights on as its climate policies bite the electric grid, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is undaunted. On Friday he signed no fewer than 40—count ’em 40—new climate bills to amp up California’s green-energy shock experiment.
Even as gasoline prices nationwide have fallen to an average $3.68 a gallon, Californians are still paying $5.45 a gallon. California’s electric rates are already more than double those in neighboring states. This is what happens when politicians try to eliminate fossil fuels with a Molotov cocktail of regulation, taxes, and renewable mandates and subsidies.
But Mr. Newsom blew right past that on Friday: “We’re not only doubling down, we’re just getting started.”
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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-2024-climate-platform-california-40-climate-bills-energy-electricity-blackouts-11663702766
One thing to bear in mind, unless Californian elections are totally rigged, the majority of Californians voted for politicians who support these policies.
How do we interpret this apparent acceptance and support for higher prices? Do Newsom supporting Californians want to pay higher prices? Or do they still believe the green fiction of cheap renewables, do they expect prices to fall in the near future? At what point do voters expect Newsom’s green lunacy to start to feel good?
Whatever their expectations, the next decade will be a painful test of their resolve and patience.
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> One thing to bear in mind, unless Californian elections are totally rigged, the majority of Californians voted for politicians who support these policies.
¿Por que no los dos?
“California” is committed to imposing a fossil free economy/society within a few short decades. I suggest rather than a blanket deadline edict we instead learn from a phased in scale exercise. Start with the State offices around the capital. Expand to all of Sacramento City. Then Sacramento County. I need not suggest and further expansions as the Sacramento City edicts will strip bare any remaining fantasies of fossil fuel independence.
In 1984 when Walter Mondale promised to raise taxes he lost in a landslide. This effort deserves no less.
One thing to bear in mind, unless Californian elections are totally rigged, the majority of Californians voted for politicians who support these policies.
They’re a bit more nuanced than that-
California’s ‘racist’ Article 34 remains an obstacle to affordable housing (msn.com)
Go build them in Marthas Vineyard. LOL.
Pauline Kael of the New Yorker famously once asked how Nixon got elected when she didn’t know anyone who voted for him. I feel sorta the same way here in Californistan—virtually nobody I talk with agrees with anything the state or local governments are doing (and aren’t doing), but they do not change the way they vote. They will agree with policies associated with Republicans, but “never could vote for a Republican.” Current LA Mayor race is typical: They are going to vote for a lifelong Dem politician who has presided over the current homeless dystopia instead of a capitalist whose entire campaign is focused on homelessness, identified as the biggest issue for Angelenos. Why? Because he used to be a Republican, he is a successful capitalist, and they are single-issue voters who think that the lifelong Dem is stronger on things like abortion and LBGTQ-etc. and environmental equity and rights, which don’t impact them directly near as much as everything else they complain about (high prices, homelessness, elimination of single family home neighborhoods, and etc.). The disconnect is absolutely amazing. Can’t wait to leave—but where is it actually better now that these same fools are also leaving but then voting the same way in a new locale? It is a conundrum. Jeremiah Johnson, here I come!
I see the same conundrum with Joe Bide; no one I know has ever admitted to actually VOTING for him, yet he supposedly won by 81 million votes????
They have been showing the door to a vast number of the middle class for a long time. It’s the Grapes of Wrath 2: The Green Remake starring the Democrat Party on behalf of several thousand nonprofit advocates and unions.