While the State is facing shortages of transportation fuels never before experienced in California, the State continues to spend billions to build more wind and solar that are not reducing the number of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants that maintain the continuous electricity demanded by our infrastructures and economy?
California state leaders are CLUELESS that the word ENERGY is comprised of 3 topics:
- Transportation fuels
- Products
- Electricity
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Net Zero Green Energy Ideologists are OBLIVIOUS to the reality that "Energy Transition" is only an "Electricity Transition".
We're constantly told that wind and solar power are low-cost, clean, and sustainable, but Net Zero ideologists never engage in conversations about the monstrous garbage heaps these "alternative, green" electricity systems are leaving behind. To cite just one example, existing US wind turbines alone will leave behind some 145,000,000 tons of concrete and rebar and 5,500,000 tons of blades that, laid end-to-end, would stretch 9,100 miles.
Wind Turbines and Solar Panels have limited capabilities:
- CANNOT produce the transportation fuels required by airplanes, trucks, merchant and cruise ships, construction equipment, and vehicles.
- CANNOT make any of the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels for today's materialistic society and economies around the world.
- ONLY generates electricity under favorable weather conditions.
With their consistent over-regulations on the cleanest refineries in the world, that are currently located in California, the State promotes an increase in emissions from the Asian refineries and transporting ships demanded by the California economy. In addition, California is promoting the State to be a national security risk for America, by promoting those Asian refineries to have control of the transportation fuels that are the basis of the 4th largest economy in the world located in California.
If the State of California continues its mission to run the state's economy with transportation fuels imported from Asia, we strongly encourage President Trump to immediately invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 which is a United States federal law that gives the President emergency powers to control domestic industries and private businesses. It ensures the nation has enough industrial resources and supplies for national defense, energy infrastructure, and major emergencies.
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About the Authors
Ronald Stein is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations.
He is a policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute,
and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and a national TV
commentator on energy & infrastructure with Rick Amato.
Mike Ariza is
a US Navy veteran with over twenty years of experience in the refining
industry. His refining experience extends from the Chevron Refinery in
Richmond California, the Flying J refinery in Bakersfield, and the
Valero Refinery in Benicia.