California electric grid on the verge of collapse days after Governor Newsom signs “Electric Vehicle Mandate”.

California’s electric grid is on the verge of collapse days after Governor Newsom signs “Electric Vehicle Mandate”.

EV’s aren’t practical, they’re not cost-effective. They’re not reliable enough to have a secondhand market.

I’ve blogged previously about people who bought one, and wasted $11,000 on a car that looked fine, only to have it break down weeks later and find out that they need a $14,000 battery that GM doesn’t even make anymore.

Now it turns out there’s not enough electricity for California’s grid today, when few people even drive EVs, and the California electric company is asking people to avoid charging their cell phones due to imminent failure of their electrical grid.

Only a group of incompetent politicians could think you’re going to lob in millions of EVs on top of California’s grid and that it will still operate. The truth is there’s not enough electricity they could beg, borrow, or steal to make it work.

California is pretty much the closest thing to a European country there is in America, and true to form, as if their current mess isn’t bad enough, you have a bunch of them calling for the shutdown of their nuclear power plants as well, even as they speak of rolling blackouts being an inevitability with their current generating capacity.

The news is blaming climate change and heat waves, however, California has long had electrical reliability problems, and none of it is “climate” related.

They have had rolling blackouts since the early 2000s, and what electricity they could get was expensive. This is mainly due to fraud enabled by rampant political corruption, as well as leftists who don’t want any electricity to be generated by anything.

The only thing that appeases the lefties appears to be wind turbines and solar, neither of which generate stable base load power, and both of which create rampant environmental destruction of their own, since nobody is recycling them at the end of their service life, and they all get shredded and tossed in a landfill.

The only thing California proves is that the people living in it are too stupid to be allowed to possibly run their own state, which should be placed into a receivership after we expel their members of Congress.

California also has a water problem, due to throwing millions of gallons into car washes, lawn sprinklers, in ground swimming pools, and almonds that take a gallon and a half each, while Lake Mead runs bone dry.

They’ve been so successful in getting douchebags to drink “almond milk” that it’s driven up the demand for California almonds into orbit, which means more water for the almonds, which means they empty out Lake Mead like someone pulled the bathtub stopper.

They don’t want to accept blame, so they blame “climate change” for all of it.

In the early 2000s, Lake Mead was at record levels, and today they’re worried that it could stop producing _any_ hydropower and run dry.

The Inter-State Compact on management of the Great Lakes was quickly signed to keep California from trying to run a pipeline across the country to deplete our fresh water as well when they finish fouling their own nest. They’re too cheap to build de-salination plants.

It’s bad enough that you see posts from California transplants who can no longer stand the mess they’ve made of their own state and want to know all about yours. They haven’t learned anything. They’ll come here and vote exactly like they did there, which is why it went wrong in the first place.

The left isn’t logical. It votes based on feelings, not facts. Most of them are Atheists, except that “Liberalism” in the modern sense is a religion.

They believe that the state will fix everything, when in fact it has shown repeatedly that if you want a bigger mess than anyone has ever seen before, get the state involved.

Electric vehicles are just their latest idea that’s so bad, they had to make it a law.