California Governor Gavin Newsom represents a population of 40 million. The State's residents are a miniscule 0.4 percent of the 8 billion on this planet, but he has California acting as an independent country with environmental laws, regulations, and mandates unmatched on this planet.
President-Elect Trump recognizes a key fact that Newsom does not, that there is no known "replacement" to fossil fuels that supports the materialistic demands of the population and economy, and thus most "green" movements are projected to be obliterated after Trump's January 20th inauguration.
The residents of California, through their silence, provides encouragement for Newsom to continue his net-zero mission that has contributed to the State having the highest costs for electricity and fuels in the nation for the few residing in the State.
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The Governor remains ignorant that the other 99.6 percent of the world's population live outside the borders of the State. Newsom is also oblivious that about 80 percent of the world's 8 billion, many of which are in Africa, Asia and Latin America still live on less than $10 a day – and the billions who still have little to no access to electricity.
Newsom's quixotic approach seeks to simultaneously increase occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind and solar while reducing the state's use of natural gas that generates continuous, uninterruptable, and dispatchable electricity.
Wind turbines for the generation of electricity under favorable weather conditions, would be non-existent were it not for government subsidies and mandates behind them. Today, we have towering engines of mass destruction marching across the countryside killing birds and bats and laying waste to farmlands and forests.
The Governor now supports the development of offshore wind generated electricity as part of his renewable electricity goals. California is proposing to build offshore wind turbines to produce an estimated 85,000 gigawatt-hours of power annually to the electric grid.
· To meet that goal of 85,000 gigawatt-hours of power would require 2,500 floating 10 megawatt wind turbines 20 miles offshore, each one about 1,000 feet tall, anchored in water 4,000 feet deep, with high voltage undersea transmission lines connecting each of them to land-based substations.
· If these wind turbine monstrosities are ever built, the total project cost will easily exceed $300 billion, with catastrophic consequences to the marine environment including migrating whales, and then, it's ONLY for electricity as wind turbines CANNOT make any of the more than 6,000 products that our materialistic economy demands
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Newsom remains insensitive to wind being one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity, nor is he concerned that wind turbines damage the environment, kill birds, and kills whales.
Governor Newsom, who solely picks winners and losers, announced in 2020 that California will ban sales of new gasoline powered vehicles by 2035, BUT remains oblivious to those that purchase those vehicles OUTSIDE of California, or to the 99.6% of those on this planet that live outside the borders of the State.
While the Newsom administration pushed tax credits to incentivize automakers to invest in EVs, the same credits that are financially encouraging China and Africa to continue exploiting their people with yellow, brown, and black skin that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals needed for EV batteries, and for those developing countries to continue the environmental degradation to THEIR landscapes, just so America can go green!
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