Wednesday's Woeful Absurdities: Let the Rolling Blackouts in California Begin!
Wednesday's Woeful Absurdities: Let the Rolling Blackouts in California Begin!
Rolling blackouts hit California on Tuesday in the midst of a heat wave, as the state’s massive wind energy fleet failed to live up to its promises yet again.
Gov. Gavin Helmet Hair Newsom again worked to condition Golden State residents to accept the situation as their new normal, telling them that they, not under-powered grid, are the problem and they need to “double down to save energy.”
Grid operator Cal ISO also urged conservation, including telling EV owners not to charge their cars at night.
Thus, over the past two weeks, California’s government has sent the following conflicting messages to those who own electric vehicles or wish to buy one:
"Remember, citizens, don't charge your EVs at night!"
"Also remember, citizens, go buy an EV to save money on gas!"
"Also remember, citizens, we'll pay you $1,000 a year to not drive any car at all!"
The state has become a literal energy theater of the absurd, and the Democrat officials whose idiotic policy decisions over the last 25 years created the mess out of whole cloth want their constituents to believe it’s their own fault.
When you think about it, Newsom and his fellow demented Dems are right: After all, it’s the ignorant masses who keep electing Democrats to govern them. So, hey, they’re getting the government - and power grid - they voted for. No reason to have any sympathy for them at all. Just stop trying to export your madness to other states, like Texas, where it’s been slowly taking hold, even under Republican leadership.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s follies are gaining attention from national Democrats, and in exactly the way you might expect:
Yes, friends, our energy-nitwit Energy Secretary considers California and its 3rd world-quality power grid not as an example to be studiously avoided, but as a role model for the rest of the nation. She wants to recreate this week’s predicted days-long rolling blackouts all across the country.
In case you weren’t already aware, the Dems are well on their way to getting to that goal. In the wake of last week’s announcement that California would ban gas-powered cars by 2035, the fawning media reminded us that fully 17 states have laws in place that require their governments to adopt California’s vehicle emissions standards:
Here’s an excerpt from an AP story on that subject:
MINNEAPOLIS — Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state's strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen powered by 2035.
Under the Clean Air Act, states must abide by the federal government's standard vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially opt to follow California's stricter requirements.
Among them, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Vermont are expected to adopt California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won't. The legal ground is a bit murkier in Minnesota, where the state’s “Clean Cars” rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia.
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You just cannot make this stuff up, folks. Don’t even try.
We should all remember that this quasi-religious devotion to the narrative above all other considerations is because both Newsom and Granholm profess to actually believe stories like this one that ran yesterday at The Hill:
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
A glacier that could cause a multi-foot sea level increase if it melted is disappearing at about twice the previously observed rate, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Although the findings indicate the rate of retreat has slowed in recent years, researchers also saw indications that past a certain point the recession could begin increasing rapidly again.
“Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future — even from one year to the next — once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed,” co-author Robert Larter of the British Antarctic Survey said in a statement.
“Just a small kick to Thwaites could lead to a big response,” added Graham.
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Warning! Warning! Don’t kick the glacier the size of Massachusetts because you might cause a global catastrophe! Warning ! Warning!
How many times over the last 25 years have we seen stories in the corrupt news media about enormous glaciers “about to break off” from Antarctica and flood the world? Several of those glaciers - like the A-76 glacier the “size of Rhode Island” that NBC News said “scientists” warned about last year - have actually broken away, but has the world flooded? It’s still pretty damn high and dry here in Texas, even on Galveston Island.
You can look all day for follow-up stories about that A-76 glacier at NBC News and you won’t find any. Why? Because no disaster followed. This is a brainwashing campaign, nothing more.
As is always the case in a brainwashing campaign by the media, full and accurate reporting is not the goal. The goal is the initial fright report designed to scare the masses to react in a specific way and accept the socialist policy proposals that inevitably follow to “fix” the imagined “problem.” That the disaster never comes about is not even a consideration within our media establishment.
The end result is the 3rd-world quality power grid we see in California now, and constant government efforts to condition the masses to accept their lot as their “new normal.” And with new wave of children who have never known anything else being brainwashed in the public schools about it all, the social Marxists like Newsom and Granholm are convinced they will succeed over time.
The scary thing is, they’re probably right about that. I mean, who’s really fighting to prevent it on any organized, national basis? The Republicans?
Give me a break.
That is all.
Yes. where are Republicans? Hiding? Terrified to speak? There is no opposition to left insanity. I don’t think the November elections will go to Republicans. They don’t exist. Zipped up voluntarily or lurking behind pillars, they are cowards.