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This editorial appearted in today's "Wall street Journal." How long are the voters in California going to put up with oppression by the Left?
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Californians are learning to live like the Amish after investor-owned utility PG&E this week shut off power to two million or so residents to prevent wildfires amid heavy, dry winds. Blame the state’s largest blackout on a perfect storm of bad policies.

Two dozen or so wildfires in the past few years have been linked to PG&E equipment, including one last fall that killed 85 people. PG&E under state law is on the hook for tens of billions of dollars in damages and has filed for bankruptcy. For years the utility skimped on safety upgrades and repairs while pumping billions into green energy and electric-car subsidies to please its overlords in Sacramento. Credit Suisse has estimated that long-term contracts with renewable developers cost the utility $2.2 billion annually more than current market power rates.

PG&E customers pay among the highest rates in America. But the utility says inspecting all of its 100,000 or so miles of power lines and clearing dangerous trees would require rates to increase by more than 400%. California’s litigation-friendly environment has also increased insurance rates for tree trimmers and made it hard to find workers.


Meantime, opposition to logging and prescribed burns in California’s forests compounded by a seven-year drought has yielded 147 million dead trees that make for combustible fuel. Rural communities are at especially high fire risk when winds kick up as they have this week.

To avoid more damage, PG&E announced this week that it would cut power across 34 counties in Central and Northern California as long as there are sustained winds of 25 miles an hour and gusts of 45 miles an hour. After winds subside, the utility says it may take several days to inspect equipment before power returns, and there could be more blackouts this fall.

Suddenly, Californians are learning to love fossil fuels. Stores have experienced runs on oil lamps—yes, those still exist—and emergency generators fueled by gasoline, propane or diesel. Napa County wineries and even the tunnel connecting San Francisco with the East Bay are operating on generators.

Most batteries that store solar power can’t keep homes charged for more than a day during a blackout, and most electric-car owners won’t have enough juice to escape the power outage. Still, liberals in Sacramento want to abolish fossil fuels.

A report this week by Next 10 and Beacon Economics warns that the state isn’t on target to meet its climate goals in 2030 because Californians refuse to abandon SUVs for electric cars. Wildfires last year produced more CO2 than the state’s businesses, homes and farms, offsetting state emission reductions in 2017 nine times over.

Environmental regulators responded to the report by claiming that carbon from burned trees is more “natural” than from combusted fossil fuels. Perhaps they’ve inhaled too much of their own smoke.

A fine example of the Dems running a rich state into the ground.

Most of the lib idiots in Calif are to ignorant to even have an idea of what the so called democrats (Communist) are really trying to do. Enslavement of the entire population.

They run every state into the ground.

Stock price in Generac has gone up nicely the last few days on account of the power being cut off by PG&E. I have a few shares. Might be hard to buy fuel for the generators in California if the propane and diesel suppliers don't have electricity.

It's Commiefornia- - - - - - -in the words of wise old Woodsy Owl- - - - -WHOOOOOOOO- - - -CARES?"
Jerry

Some wierd stuff going on here. Thinking maybe that POS Newsome secretly sold Calif to China? Power shut off 3 days ago because of high winds. Thaere is no wind , and still no power. Thanks god I have a generator hooked to my well. In the process hopefully of getting out of this communist run state!

What a third world sheithole.

Everyone "knows" food comes from the grocery store. Let's ban cows and diesel tractors.

Yet there is still plenty of money to give to the homeless.........

Sad thing is the amount of fires that will be started due to people with gas generators who have no idea how to run and maintain them correctly.

You'll notice the shutoffs were in RURAL areas where the power needed goes to produce food?

it's getting rough out there.

areas - businesses that rely on electricity will need to adapt quickly.

and now shep is leaving the fox news. what is this world coming to?

Agenda 21 previews.

[quote=Ranger_Green]Yet there is still plenty of money to give to the illegal aliens.........quote]

Fixed it

And "Just in time" you folks in Kalifornia get this too.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/u...12019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105045rmdzv

Not the government you may want, but the government you allowed.
Hey just ignore it. Pay your (higher) taxes. Don't organize and don't get involved. That's worked SO WELL so far.

Right?

If the power doesn't come back on soon, grocery stores will be out of everything, or unable to sell anything without power for the cash registers, coolers and freezers. Gas stations will not be able to pump. There will be no cold beer, or cold anything else. You wont be able to order in food because nobody is able to cook, if they HAVE anything to cook. Hospitals, health clinics, dentist offices etc will be in big trouble, generators or no generators.

Dark Ages indeed, riots will soon follow just as soon as people start getting hungry. . Crime will go up 40% just for not having any street lights. Police radios and computers will be useless.

People have had it too soft for too long and wont be able to handle what's coming.

Thanks, Newsom, thanks liberals, thanks evironmental whackos, you have ruined a once beautiful state.

Trump will win Kali now too?!?

Didn't help- - - - - -the annual wildfires started anyway. The power companies might have avoided another round of lawsuits from fires started by shorted out transformers or wind-damaged high lines, I suppose, but the fires got going regardless.

yeah, well true enough.

but at least the pwr company won't be blamed for it.

they might well be blamed for a bunch of other stuff though.

maybe the folks who chose to build in the wildland-urban interface didn't know better?