Good day all. Kalifornistan’s fire season is burning merrily away. In preparation for this, the power company out there, PG&E, announced it was cutting power to several million customers, Why? To try and keep the high winds from breaking the power lines and sparking a fire.
One of the issues with this, besides sending people back to the 19th century, is that with no electricity, all those nice green electric cars have no way to recharge, making them very expensive, politically correct paperweights. Here are the details from Car and Driver:
Nature built California to burn. And there’s only so much Elon Musk, Pacific Gas & Electric, or anyone else can do to diminish that.
“All Tesla Supercharger stations in regions affected by California power outages will have Tesla Powerpacks within next few weeks,” Elon Musk tweeted this morning in response to PG&E’s shutoff of power to several California regions in order to minimize the risk of wildfire from high winds. “Just waiting on permits.”
Yeah, about that. Depending on where you need to go, several weeks isn’t going to cut it. With a traditional gas or diesel engine, you can refuel using a hose, hand pump or gravity if you need to. With an electric car, once that battery is dead, you aren’t going anywhere fast. (Or at all unless it’s on foot)
“Waiting on permits” may as well be California’s state motto. And there’s never any guarantee they’ll actually come.
Oh I think it’s safe to say they won’t.
Weeks can be a long wait if you’re looking at a Model 3 in your garage with a drained battery, no electrical power to charge it, and the closest grocery store with power 80 miles away. But such is life in the Golden State, where forests and chaparral are all on hair triggers ready to ignite with slightest transformer malfunction or transmission line break. And the political environment demands minimal risk after the 2018 fire season produced 8527 conflagrations burning an astonishing 1,893,913 acres of wild lands and more than 18,000 structures. Those fires also took the lives of 97 civilians and six firefighters.
We won’t go into how the morons running Kalifornistan have managed to utterly screw everything up, which is why they have so many major fires each year. You know, preventing clearing away dead wood and sick trees, and preventing the construction of water systems to have water available in times of drought. But you know, the Kalifornistan Elite are so much smarter then the tax serfs and peons they rule over.
The reason PG&E is cutting off the power, as I mentioned above, is to prevent electrical arcs from sparking off fires. Of course, the effect on people isn’t being considered, nor are other factors that cause fires being taken into account, such as flat out arson and lightening strikes.
These aren’t short-term outages where the major consequence is missing the morning’s episode of The Price Is Right. “Outages (weather event plus restoration time) could last longer than 48 hours,” the company warns. “For planning purposes, PG&E suggests customers prepare for outages that could last several days.”
I’ve read elsewhere that these power outages have already killed one person. He needed power to runi his oxygen system, and when it went off, it failed and so did he. I understand a lawsuit has already been filed.
On the second day of the outages, the Wall Street Journal reports 700,000-plus customers are without power in Northern California, including areas such as the East Bay abutting Berkeley and Oakland.
And if there’s one place where Tesla sells a lot of cars, it’s the East Bay. Not only does the area contain Fremont, the city where the Tesla assembly plant is located, it’s also maybe the place most politically attuned to the idea and aspirations of electric-car ownership. And there’s plenty of money there to purchase such vehicles.
Personally, I love it that the Green Elites are now on foot or riding buses, you know, the fossil fueled buses because the electric ones don’t have the range needed to get the job done. And as for all those mandated solar panels?
It’s also the state with mandated solar installations for new construction, another mandating the sale of zero-emission vehicles, and yet one more planning to replace conventional electricity generation with renewable technologies many doubt can reliably handle the demand.
Allow me a simple answer. It can’t and never will. Here’s something the big solar supporters are finding out. The solar panels on their roofs and in their back yards? They feed power to the grid, not into the home. When the grid is taken offline, the solar panels just sit their and collect bird shit. Besides, even if the panels were wired into the homes, they wouldn’t be able to recharge a Tesla or any other electric car in anything less then a few days. Solar panels just aren’t that efficient yet. (If ever)
I intend to sit back and watch as Kalifornistan rapidly sinks into the United States equivalent of Venezuela. A state that was once the richest one in the nation, now reduced to virtual third world status. I have no doubt that all those progressives who worship at the green altar will feel so great about themselves as they sit in the dark, slowly starving to death because they have no way to get anywhere to buy food.
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