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California goes haywire! Electric car owners are told NOT to charge their vehicles because of heatwave - just days after announcing 2035 ban on gas cars
2022-09-01
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Californians are being advised not to charge their electric cars between 4 and 9pm from Wednesday to Tuesday due to the excessive heatwave

  • They are also being advised to set their thermostats at 78 degrees or higher, avoid using large appliances, and turn off unnecessary lights

  • The move comes just weeks after the state passed a future ban on gas-powered cars by 2035

  • Officials have not said how they plan to deal with an overwhelmed power grid in the future as more electric vehicles hit the roads and charging ports

  • 'It’s too soon to tell what the impacts of the 2035 ban will be,' Anna Gonzalez, of CA ISO, told DailyMail.com

  • California and the rest of the West is expected to deal with excessive temperature and prolonged heat as Labor Day weekend rolls through
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  I seem to remember some people predicting this kind of thing and asking questions about the future of the grid...who could they have been hmmmmmmm?

According to The Camera People, terrorists.

The batting average of The Conspiracy People continues to improve, even if this one was a meat ball - but its smoking softballs out of the park like this one which make the prime time highlight reel.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-01 16:17  

#10  When is Cali splitting into 3 states to pack the Senate? Wasn't that the plan? LA, SF and everyone else?
Posted by: AlanC   2022-09-01 15:53  

#9  ^ According to Algore, the world was supposed to be over by now...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-01 14:49  

#8  The "mandate" doesn't kick in until 2035 and will be long forgotten by then.

Go back and look at all the Green fantasies that had been "mandated" by 2020 and see how many of them have actually come to pass.
Posted by: Tom   2022-09-01 14:37  

#7  The few years I lived in California there were enough sane people to make it bearable. Things got worse and when I left I felt like I had escaped from behind enemy lines. The few I knew who were sane have also left in the years after I did.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-01 14:24  

#6  Abu ... I acknowleage 30% of the state is still. Having lived in the Valley/Fresno/Kernden is generally sane.

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-09-01 14:10  

#5  NN2N1 and Chris, I grin and bear it. I still have an internal combustion engine in my car and the heat doesn't seem to bother me all that much. No, we're not all idiots. In all fairness, our local TV and newspapers never mention simple facts like how the state's population has doubled without any corresponding additions to infrastructure. They're busy working, paying their bills, raising families...you know, living their lives. So, how are folks to know until something like this happens?

I dunno. Maybe it should happen more often.

Poor Mrs. Uluque freaks out if the thermometer shows anything above 70 degrees. I don't believe she'll be cutting our energy consumption until the grid fails and we're all sitting in hot, humid darkness...and NO TV!!! I suppose you could say poor me because I'll be the one who has to listen to her bitching and moaning about it. I tell her it'd be a lot worse if we lived inland but that doesn't comfort her much. In her defense, she did NOT vote for Newsom.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-01 13:06  

#4  I seem to remember some people predicting this kind of thing and asking questions about the future of the grid...who could they have been hmmmmmmm?
Posted by: AlanC   2022-09-01 13:02  

#3  Imagine the Pay-Per-View Cage Death Match Event.

In the green tights the Team Treehugger that wants to return California (and the World later) to virgin wilderness that can only support a few starving hunter-gatherers per square mile.

In the brown is Team Corruption, see the gold bling they are wearing and the trail of dollar bills. They want 'Bread and Circuses' to keep the masses voting for them so they can continue stealing everybody blind.

The Winner of the Cage Match gets the dwindling pile of Other Peoples Moneyâ„¢. Let the Fight Begin!
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-01 13:01  

#2  Fuck em
Posted by: Chris   2022-09-01 11:58  

#1  

When you have a voter population comprised of 69.5% idiots, what do you think will happen?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-09-01 07:04  

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