Climate change overwhelming California power grid
BY PGF
2 years, 3 months ago
The article at the Hill is here. Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has this to say:
Nope, not even close.
A record heat wave is pushing California’s electric grid up against the point of failure this week, with officials pointing to climate change for putting continued stress on the system.
The California grid is only overworked because leftist politicians have been pushing toward energy policies that make zero sense for decades.
- Shut down nuclear plants? Check.
- Push solar and wind infrastructure that can’t sustain diddly squat in order to appear hip and cool? Check.
- Disincentivize the repair of aging power lines that tends to fail or spark and cause hundreds of wildfires by pushing companies to invest in green energy instead of maintaining current infrastructure? Check.
The California energy problem is man-made. It has nothing to do with climate change.
But it does have much to do with “California’s Potemkin Environmentalism:” No State Imports More Electricity Than California.
Even during the Schwarzenegger era, Max Schultz of City Journal,who coined the above phrase, noted that California’s “celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.” And California’s man-made energy woes have only gotten worse since.
All famines are man-made! That article at the Hill is flat out communist green revolution propaganda. I, for one, don’t find it particularly funny. Real lives will be lost due to these mass murdering evil antichrist communists.
On September 6, 2022 at 10:40 pm, Kangarew66 said:
Renewable energy has been a failure everywhere it’s ever been tried. Yet, the politicians act as though everything bad is due to climate change or those nasty ol’ oil companies. Sheer lunacy.