To be fair Newsom isn't banning the sale of non-electric cars until 2035 but since the state of California's electrical system will be far worse then than it is now, due to his policies, his edict will really hurt Californians.
Yes it's true that after 2035 we'll be able to keep our gasoline and diesel cars and we'll even be able to sell them but no new cars will allowed to use fossil fuels.
Currently due to Newsom's failed energy policies on hot days Californians face black outs because renewable energy sources often don't produce much power; when the sun is blocked by smoke from fires and there isn't much wind for example.
Since Newsom plans to dramatically increase the fraction of power supplied by renewable sources that means either he's going to spend a fortune and kill a lot of birds to ensure that we have enough power margin, something he won't do, or we're going to have more blackouts.
And into that world of limited electricity Newsom is now saying that we have to power all our vehicles with electricity.
But the thought of regular blackouts, making California more like some third world backwater than an American state, isn't the biggest problem.
Because of Newsom's failed forest management policies and his unwillingness to do what the scientists say he should do to reduce massive wildfires Newsom has told entire sections of the state that they will have to go without power during fire seasons because the solution to power lines staring fires isn't better forest management but making huge numbers of Californians go without power for weeks on end.
If your electricity is off for a week or two that electric car or truck will become nothing more than a very expensive paperweight. And yes we'll need paperweights because without electricity our computers, phones, and iPads won't work either.
Democrats, like their fascist brethren in the Soviet Union and Communist China, are all about ideology not actually helping the people. Also just as the rulers in Communist countries don't suffer the consequence of the policies they impose on the people neither will the Democrats who run California. They always have power.
Democrats like Newsom don't care about you one bit. The only thing they care about is getting power to force you to live the way they want you to.
Oh and no vehicle is zero emissions; that's a big Democrat lie.
Every sort of electrical power pollutes. Wind and solar plants use huge amounts of toxic chemicals and require massive mining operations that despoil the landscape.
Further we can never have an all solar/wind power system since building enough power stations would not only exceed the worlds capacity to produce the materials needed, they'd take up huge amounts of land while decimating bird populations and would require more batteries than could be manufactured, assuming we could find the raw materials, in hundreds of years.
Hence we'll always need nuclear, hydroelectric, or fossil fuel based power plants. While hydro and nuclear don't emit CO2, making them zero emission, Newsom and his environmental extremist friends say no to them.
So California electricity will always produce CO2. Hence no electric car in California will ever really be "zero emissions" in any meaningful sense.
One study has shown that "zero emission" cars actually pollute more than electric cars in some locations where coal is used to produce electricity.
The reality is that using energy will produce some form of pollution. Oddly Democrats reject Trump's approach which has already significantly reduced US CO2 production, use natural gas.
Posts
3 comments:
> Further we can never have an all solar/wind power system since building enough power stations would not only exceed the worlds capacity to produce the materials needed, they'd take up huge amounts of land while decimating bird populations and would require more batteries than could be manufactured, assuming we could find the raw materials, in hundreds of years.
Know what else will kill of birds? Pollution from coal plants. Global warming. People have studied this. Fossil fuel plants kill more than wind. Further the pollution from fossil fuel plants hurt humans directly too. Studies show exposure to fossil fuel emissions significantly increases human mortality. But for whatever reason when wind is brought up all your care about is "the birds" (and wind systems can be redesigned to protect birds). The Audubon society (the bird people) supports wind power but for some reason you don't.
Further solar plants do not require exotic materials. Simple mirrors can be used to run turbines in concentrated solar power plants. Yes it requires more land but land is not a scarce resource. We have vast unused deserts.
Please show that pollution kills as many birds as the wind and solar power that will replace them.
Of course Trump's support for fracking is leading to coal being phased out for cleaner burning natural gas.
Source for your claim.
As I recall the solar plant that uses mirrors was closed down
I note that per usual you didn't actually address the shortage of materials necessary to convert to "renewable" energy.
> Please show that pollution kills as many birds as the wind and solar power that will replace them.
This is easy to show. Did you bother searching before asking? Here's a paper that estimates that fossil fuel power plants kill 10x more birds than wind power plants per GWh. There are many more such papers.
The fact that you repeat your claims ad nauseum without even considering this possibility shows how uninterested you are in the truth.
> As I recall the solar plant that uses mirrors was closed down
"the solar plant"? There are lots of them and more construction underway.
> I note that per usual you didn't actually address the shortage of materials necessary to convert to "renewable" energy.
I told you we don't need exotic materials to get renewable power generation. We can use pumped water and hydrogen for storage. That addresses your concerns directly.
Post a Comment