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If You Like Your Gas Stove, You Can Keep Your Gas Stove

March 28, 2025 7:34 amMarch 29, 2025 8:51 am

They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, your gas dryer, your gas grille, your gas blower, your gas fireplace, and any other gas-powered appliance or vehicle you can think of....

More California Chickens Come Home to Roast

January 22, 2025 1:42 pmJanuary 22, 2025 1:42 pm

What burns hotter than a disco inferno? A fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may...

Ringside: The Many Colors of Hydrogen

January 9, 2025 12:03 pmJanuary 9, 2025 12:04 pm

The lightest and most abundant substance in the universe, the simplest possible molecule, hydrogen (H2), is touted as the clean burning fuel of the future. Zero pollution. But how can hydrogen be extracted or manufactured in its pure form, and...

California’s Carbon Contradiction of Favoring Foreign Oil Over Domestic Truth

March 23, 2024 2:30 amMarch 22, 2024 2:07 pm

In the heart of California’s environmental policy discussions, a glaring contradiction casts a shadow over the state’s commitment to leading the world in climate action. California’s proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulatory package highlights the absurdity surrounding the carbon...

Sites Reservoir: Greenhouse Gas Threat or Hot Air?

August 30, 2023 2:45 amAugust 30, 2023 7:03 pm

One modern day mystery is how California is going to be able to supply its water needs going forward without more water storage. If the climate changes as predicted, more rain and less snow, California’s hydrology and its storage needs...

Green Totalitarianism: They’re Coming for Your Water Heater Now

July 23, 2023 3:39 pmJuly 23, 2023 3:40 pm

First they came for your internal combustion engine automobiles and diesel trucks. Next they came for your gas stoves and BBQs. Then they came for your shower heads, water faucets, dishwashers, air conditioners and portable gas generators. Now the Biden...

The Spark that Lit the Gas Stove Debate

March 17, 2023 3:40 pmMarch 17, 2023 4:27 pm

On January 1, 2023 it is likely most Americans woke up with a hangover. On January 1, 2023, it is a almost a certainty that no American woke up worried that the gas stove in their kitchen was secretly killing...