Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t M; California Governor Gavin Newsom doubling down on the local weather insurance policies that are destroying high quality of life for bizarre Californians.
Newsom’s 2024 Local weather Platform
Blackouts? No worries, mate. California is ‘simply getting began,’ because the Governor indicators 40 new legal guidelines.
By The Editorial Board
Sept. 20, 2022 6:44 pm ETCalifornia can barely hold the lights on as its local weather insurance policies chunk the electrical grid, however Gov. Gavin Newsom is undaunted. On Friday he signed no fewer than 40—depend ’em 40—new local weather payments to amp up California’s green-energy shock experiment.
Whilst gasoline costs nationwide have fallen to a mean $3.68 a gallon, Californians are nonetheless paying $5.45 a gallon. California’s electrical charges are already greater than double these in neighboring states. That is what occurs when politicians attempt to remove fossil fuels with a Molotov cocktail of regulation, taxes, and renewable mandates and subsidies.
However Mr. Newsom blew proper previous that on Friday: “We’re not solely doubling down, we’re simply getting began.”
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One factor to remember, until Californian elections are completely rigged, nearly all of Californians voted for politicians who help these insurance policies.
How will we interpret this obvious acceptance and help for larger costs? Do Newsom supporting Californians wish to pay larger costs? Or do they nonetheless imagine the inexperienced fiction of low-cost renewables, do they anticipate costs to fall within the close to future? At what level do voters anticipate Newsom’s inexperienced lunacy to begin to really feel good?
No matter their expectations, the subsequent decade shall be a painful check of their resolve and endurance.
