Re: And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims

In <[email protected]> John Smyth wrote:
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> "And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to
> LA Fire Victims"
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> <https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/17/and-suddenly-gavin-newsoms-electric-car-mandate-looks-pretty-dumb-to-la-fire-victims-n4936072>
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> 'He'll save the inedible bait fish, the weed that no one's ever heard
> of, elevate meritless executives, and kill the gas car. Those are the
> highest environmental aspirations of Gavin Newsom, the alleged visionary
> governor of California, whose distorted priorities have combined to
> create the conditions for LA Inferno 2025. As the smoke begins to clear,
> the cruel environy is dawning.

Let's not forget the $34 billion COVID fraud debt that he saddled CA businesses with.

> Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift
> through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that
> looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so gullible.
> They bought Newsom's climate change diktats hook, line, and gas can, and
> now their electric car doesn't work. Their beloved Tesla and their
> neighbor's Nissan Leaf are charred carbon hulks considered by the
> environment police to be portable toxic waste dumps. I'm sorry, sir, and
> you can't move it until we've studied the environmental externalities of
> your charred car. Grab a number.
>
> And no mocking these poor folks, America, because this Caltastrophe may
> have bought more time for the rest of the country to shout down the
> climate cultists in state houses across the country. California's proof
> of concept showed that climate nirvana doesn't protect the environment
> for humans.

Fuck shouting them down.  Stand them up and cut their throats.

> Indeed, though less important, it's now dawning on Angelenos, more than
> a week after the fires started, that they're witnessing the incineration
> of all the "greenhouse emissions reductions" promised in Newsom's 2035
> gas car ban.
>
>
> More pointedly, if you have no power for a week, as thousands of Los
> Angeles residents who live near the evacuated fire areas have
> experienced, you can't charge your car battery. What happens if the fire
> spreads and you can't get out?

BBQ Democrat, coyotes and 'coons will eat it.

> When their lives depended on it, the diktats and mandates didn't help,
> but gas cars sure did.
>
> The LA Times reported — and I'm sure it killed them to do it — that EV
> drivers are having a tough time of it.
>
> You’ve plugged your electric vehicle into your home charger and hit the
> sack. Overnight, high winds topple a power line. Your charger blacks
> out. Then, a report of a fire, followed by an evacuation order. Your
> battery’s only charged to 25%. And it’s your only car.
>
> Such are the fears some California car buyers are expressing amid the
> fires that have devastated Los Angeles County and forced people to
> evacuate their homes at a moment’s notice.

Walk and run bitches.

> Believe it or not, there were no woke follow-up promises of ponies and
> unicorns in the LAT, though I'm sure they would have proved more useful
> than cars with dead batteries.
>
> The Times brought anecdotes crystallizing some of the biggest problems
> with forcing people to have nothing but electric vehicles by 2035.
>
> A gasoline car “can evacuate in any direction on any road and still get
> fuel when needed,” said Matthew Butterick, a Los Angeles attorney who
> lives near Griffith Park. “The EV stations on evacuation routes would
> have massive lines and delays, gasoline stations less so. And the
> electric grid may not be available. Power companies turn off power to
> avoid sparking a fire and also to avoid legal liability. This is
> probably the future of all the hillside neighborhoods.”

Imagine the freeways.  Stone still and packed with discharged BEVs.

> His sentiments were echoed by Val Cipollone, who lives in the wooded
> hills above Berkeley. She owns a Nissan Leaf, a full electric vehicle
> with a roughly 220-mile range, which she plans to sell.
>
> “Who knows how far you’d have to drive” after a disaster, she said. “I
> used to think I’d only need to drive to my place of work. But who knows,
> I might have to go much farther.”
>
> It bears noting that Jimmy Carter-like lines for electricity to power
> cars aren't any better than waiting in gas lines in 1973. Nobody wants
> that.
>
> Related: Stunner: California Saved a Shrub Instead of Protecting Humans
> From the L.A. Firestorm
>
> These people are waiting in subfreezing temperatures for gas — propane —
> with which to cook and keep warm. It's a three-mile-long line. This has
> been going on for weeks for the people in the hurricane-stricken areas
> of North Carolina.

Another Democrat screw job left for Republicans to clean up.

> They wouldn't make it in a line that long in EVs.
>
> It's for these reasons that some car companies manufacture hybrid
> vehicles instead of EV-only vehicles.
>
> Californians still remember when Newsom announced his 2035 diktat and
> within days asked people not to plug in their cars because it would be
> too big a strain on the electrical grid. Does this make sense? The
> question answers itself.
>
> Just this week, Newsom announced he was halting his ban on diesel fuel
> from the state and withdrawing his request for a waiver from the EPA to
> switch the state to all-electric delivery and commercial trucks. Maybe
> he'll see the light on EV mandates also.
>
> EVs have their place, of course, just maybe not when you are running for
> your life'

Incapacitate one large power plant in the Western US during the onset of evening, a domino effect will occur and take out the rest.

It has already happened in the SOCAL area.