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No Luck For California Trucks: CARB Regulates Sales to Zero

July 29, 2024 9:15 amJuly 29, 2024 9:16 am

So, you want to buy a truck. A big truck, a tractor trailer, a semi, a rig. You can, just not in California, thanks to the California Air Resources Board (CARB.) In January, yet another blurch of absurd CARB regulations...

Ringside: California’s Energy Economy – Challenges and Opportunities

July 12, 2024 2:45 amJuly 12, 2024 2:46 am

Two weeks ago, the first part of this series (Ringside, June 27) provided links to a few of the most useful and authoritative references available on energy use globally and in California: the Statistical Review of World Energy, Lawrence Livermore...

Ringside: An Overview of California’s Energy Economy

June 27, 2024 2:45 amJune 27, 2024 2:46 am

Energy in California is unaffordable and unreliable, and it’s going to get worse if the priorities of the state legislature don’t dramatically shift. The state’s default policy is to create energy scarcity in order to protect the environment, and in...

California Has Sacrificed its Energy Stability on the Altar of Green Energy ideology

May 24, 2024 2:55 amMay 24, 2024 2:56 am

State leaders’ energy mandates mean higher electricity prices for Californians. If you heard angry shouts of protest last month, it was likely your neighbors opening their electricity bills. These echoes of protest reverberated even more loudly in March when PG&E...

Actual Headline: ‘What Happens When Climate Change and the Mental-Health Crisis Collide?’

April 15, 2024 2:53 amApril 15, 2024 6:30 pm

“What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?” That actual headline in Nature.com triggered my BS meter. What does climate change have to do with mental health? “The warming planet is worsening mental illness and distress. Researchers need...

Ringside: Evaluating Underground CO2 Sequestration in California

March 20, 2024 10:20 amMarch 20, 2024 10:20 am

While the confirmed skeptic will consider Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) to be the ultimate waste of money, it nonetheless is happening. Billions of dollars have already been committed, with no end in sight. Regardless of how one might judge...

Ringside: How to Deliver Affordable Energy Again in California

February 29, 2024 2:45 amFebruary 29, 2024 2:46 am

Californians pay some of the highest prices for energy in the United States. Gasoline last year averaged $4.89 per gallon, and diesel fuel $5.07 per gallon, both the highest in the country. Electricity rates had California 45th in the nation in 2023 at $0.27...