California Setting Up It's Next Energy Disaster
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John Sexton
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Posted By: Hazymac,
5/29/2024 7:10:35 AM
California could be a much nicer place to live if some of the progressives who run the place would stop trying their best to make everything more expensive. California has had blackouts and despite this came close to shutting down its last nuclear reactor. In 2022, Gov. Newsom finally had second thoughts on that after the Biden administration offered a boatload of money to reverse course and keep the last reactor running.
But despite moments of lucidity, the state and the governor seem determined to set the state's next energy crisis in motion. Last year the state passed a bill called SBX1-2 which was brandished by
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/29/2024 7:43:54 AM (No. 1727021)
Its.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
EVRgreen4058 5/29/2024 8:12:52 AM (No. 1727044)
The liberals who run California don't care as they will need a Federal bailout on the premise that the state is TOO BIG TO FAIL. Just watch that clown show as it evolves.
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franq 5/29/2024 8:41:35 AM (No. 1727058)
Correct, #1. One of the few, if not the only, case where a possessive does not use a contraction.
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Hazymac 5/29/2024 9:03:04 AM (No. 1727071)
#1 and #3 are quite correct. Unfortunately, even though I winced when seeing the error myself, I couldn't legally correct the title and not violate posting policy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 5/29/2024 9:21:01 AM (No. 1727091)
California's biggest problem is not price gouging of fuel but tax gouging by the state government
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/29/2024 9:37:54 AM (No. 1727107)
The article worries about increasing gas prices, which is absolutely correct, but I think the real issue will be lack of supply.
1) As a gas company, if you think you are going to be sued for any little misstep, you are going to slow walk deliveries to make sure your 'i's are dotted and 't's are crossed. Further, if there is a sudden surge in demand, you are going to also be slow to respond because you are concerned that the extra costs to deliver additional fuels will be treated as gouging. Liberals do this every time there is a natural disaster and the costs for delivery go up. They DEMAND investigations and the result is almost always that there was NO gouging. Remember that, even if innocent, the investigation is costly to companies. If they want to avoid litigation costs, they are best no NOT respond to emergency needs. Or demand an emergency declaration that they will not be investigated or sued. No such declaration, no fuel.
2) There are many other states (and countries) willing to buy fuel without all the moronic, self inflicted complications of California. They will get priority on delivery and better pricing.
The only time liberal insanity works is when there is no place else that doesn't allow an alternative market. Fortunately, the US is not at that place yet. If California wants to shoot itself in the head, too bad, so sad. The fuels will be snapped up by others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
coyote 5/29/2024 9:38:06 AM (No. 1727108)
the Geniuses in Sacramento think that everything they touch will turn to gold. No, the color is a bit off, it's more brown.
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Next up.....ration cards.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/29/2024 10:06:07 AM (No. 1727130)
This is only another step to end fossil fuels. As #6 points out this will lead to reduced supplies if not shortages. There is no reason to sell a product where you can't make a reasonable profit and bureaucrats in California will be the ones establishing what a reasonable profit is.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/29/2024 10:16:22 AM (No. 1727135)
Look what happened to refrigerants R-12 and R22 when the green teams decided they caused 'warming'. The cost of limited supplies skyrocketed to where it was better to replace old equipment rather than repairing it. Did that save the public money? Now R-134 and R-410 is being phased out. (warming again) Higher cost for limited goods: Economics 101.
Just my small example of governmental meddling in manufacturing and supply.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2024 10:43:43 AM (No. 1727148)
More central control, restrictions on business and harm to oil companies and you get.....less gasoline at higher prices.
This is called "price gouging" by CaliCommies, but is the direct result of 60 years of antibusiness, anti-oil policy choices by California politicians.
FTA: from a letter from Chevron.....
"As we have mentioned before, California’s policies have made it a difficult place to invest so we have rejected capital projects in the state. Capital flight reflects the state’s inadequate returns and adversarial business climate..."
They point out that 60% of the refineries in California in the last 100 years have been forced to close. And they use the example that if 60% of fast food restaurants were forced to close, the price of hamburgers would be way up. An interesting example as California runs up minimum wages so high that a lot of fast food restaurants ARE being forced to close. Last trip to Cali, we noted that the same food in a fast food joint in Cali cost a bunch more, sometimes twice as much as back in Free America.
California politicians are strangling the state, inch by inch, destroying everything with their central control of everything, squeezing out buisinesses, strangling them one by one.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
konocti95 5/29/2024 11:02:27 AM (No. 1727164)
Its obvious that theirs know situation their California politicians cant make worse.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 5/29/2024 12:06:26 PM (No. 1727198)
Someday California will just be a National Park where illegals and the homeless live.
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