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The Abundance Choice, Part 2: The Problems With Indoor Water Rationing

May 12, 2022   2:45 amMay 26, 2022   12:13 pm
Perhaps the biggest example of misguided water policy in California are the escalating restrictions on indoor water consumption. As will be seen, the savings these restrictions amount to are trivial in the context of California’s total water consumption, yet are...
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Californians Can Weigh In on PG&E’s 22% Proposed Rate Hike with Calif. Public Utilities Commission

March 11, 2022   6:48 am
With double-digit inflation, mega-gas prices in California, high food costs, high housing costs, and used cars selling for new car prices, gird your loins: Pacific Gas and Electric is proposing a 22 percent rate hike. PG&E electricity customers were recently...
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California’s $5-7 per Gallon Gas and Energy Costs Will Get More Expensive

March 1, 2022   5:16 pmMarch 8, 2022   4:26 pm
The first week in December 2018, the United States exported more oil than we imported, for the first time in nearly 70 years. This is known as energy independence. And it happened not because of the previous 50 years of...
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California’s Electric Grid Is Near Collapse

August 19, 2020   1:13 pmAugust 20, 2020   2:26 pm
California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers and waterways such as the San Joaquin River Delta and hydroelectric dams; the Pacific coastline; 85 million...
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‘Get Used to It:’ California’s Rolling Blackouts, Power Outages

August 17, 2020   3:47 pmAugust 19, 2020   2:10 pm
At Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press conference Monday, he discussed the state’s heatwave, record temperatures throughout the state, and the rolling blackouts millions have to deal with over the very hot weekend. The California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) began the...
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CA Gov. Newsom Names his Cabinet Secretary ‘Energy Czar?’

November 2, 2019   7:13 amNovember 2, 2019   9:22 am
California Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed his cabinet secretary, Ana Matosantos, to serve as his “energy czar,” the Sacramento Bee reports, announcing Friday that “the entire system needs to be reimagined,” and “we cannot afford the kind of public safety...
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California Senate To Convene Oversight Hearing On Public Safety Power Outage Issues

October 31, 2019   4:26 pmOctober 31, 2019   4:27 pm
After an unprecedented month of planned power outages across California affecting millions of people and hurting those in need of electricity the most, the California Senate has announced an oversight hearing on the issue. The Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications...
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