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Roughly 20% of Electric Vehicle Owners in California Replaced Cars with Gas Ones, New Study Shows

May 4, 2021 2:12 amMay 3, 2021 6:13 pm

With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandated phase-out of gas-powered automobiles, we learn that one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back to owning gas-powered cars, because charging the batteries was a hassle, new research reports. Business Insider reported...

California House Republicans Urge Natural Resources Committee Action on California Drought

April 28, 2021 3:59 pm

Last week, while standing in a dried out bed on Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency… but not for the entire state of California as expected. Newsom only declared a drought emergency for two Northern California counties...

Water and Drought Deceit: More Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate

April 27, 2021 7:47 amApril 27, 2021 9:21 am

Food or Fish, Liberty or Oppression, Victim or Fighter? We Californians have many decisions to make about our future. In Climate Deceit and Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate, we addressed unreliable solar and wind power, and China’s influence...

Climate Deceit and Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate

April 26, 2021 9:13 amApril 26, 2021 8:14 am

People are so bombarded with one narrative on “clean vehicles” and “climate change” that many are unaware that there are alternative clean energy sources, or automobile options other than electric vehicles, including clean, technologically efficient gasoline-powered cars that don’t generate...

Bill To Drastically Increase Offshore Wind Power Production Introduced in Assembly

February 12, 2021 6:39 pmFebruary 13, 2021 1:09 pm

A new bill to drastically increase offshore wind power production, including a final goal of 10 Gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2040, was introduced in the Assembly this week. Assembly Bill 525, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), would...

California’s Looming ‘Green New Car Wreck’

September 30, 2020 11:32 amOctober 1, 2020 1:57 pm

On September 23, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State by 2035. Ignoring the hard lessons of this past summer, when California’s solar- and wind-reliant electric grid...

Four Gas Power Plants May See Operation Extensions Due To Blackouts, Grid Issues

August 24, 2020 3:04 pm

This week, environmental organizations, officials from numerous cities, and energy company officials are mounting eleventh hour fights before the State Water Resources Control Board meets next week to decide if several natural gas plants in Southern California will get an...