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Steve, PLEEEZE enlighten me where are we going to get our non-fossil fuel generated electricity from.
Right at this very moment, all those Teslas hooked up to their charging stations are sucking up electricity and cramming it into on-board storage.
Enjoy those brown-outs while there's still enough electricity to dole out on an as-needed basis.
Just because we in California have not reached our goal yet of mostly renewable energy sources that doesn't mean it isn't worth working on that goal to achieve solutions that the rest of the world will also buy. There were no brownouts in my area of California this year when the temperatures were at record highs 121F in the northern Los Angeles regions and many Teslas in use all around me. Many of the brown outs were due to electric utilites wanting the power grid shut down to prevent further fires from falling power lines and other similar issues, not to to prevent overload to the system.
What California is doing is what the USA did in the past to make us great - and denying science and ignoring the problems are what losers do, like in todays powerful in Washington DC. California embarks on solutions that have promise and we innovate to make them come true. It took us 40 years to mostly eliminate smog in the state (at least from new vehicles that are combustion powered that gradually took over the fleet). But we did it and went it alone when the EPA just deferred to the California Air Resources Board to lead that charge and then adopted the standards California adopted a few years later for the other federal states. The California Air Resources Board is the agency that developed the OBD II system requirements with no assistance from anyone else except working in concert with the automobile industry and it is in virtually every new car sold in the world today (the regulation is over 120 pages long!). Industry fought it tooth and nail but we prevailed with good engineering, sound thinking and working cooperatively with the auto industry to make it happen and it is now used as the basis for smog checks in many states rather than a cumbersome tail pipe emission test. And an OBD II check takes only a couple minutes. Try diagnosing problems with the electronic control systems on the newer cars these days without it - good luck!
California was also at the table with the EPA and NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) in developing the national fuel economy standards set during the former administration and now trying to be rolled back by the current administration. We worked with the auto industry and did our own independent modeling of new technologies and benefits using the same well-known researchers/consultants that the auto industry itself uses. The technologies we converged on were mostly the same ones the auto industry was pursuing. And we gradually attained consensus and agreement on those standards until this administration has tried to scale them back. Some manufacturers such as Ford, BMW, Volvo and I think it was VW are still agreeing to meet the California standards that can not be rolled back without a court battle that will take time to settle.
But the technologies developed over the last 30 some years for emission control systems combined with the advanced technologies of cars getting better fuel economy have enabled boosted, precision controlled fuel systems and downsized engines in cars like the Hellcat Redeyes to actually be built for commercial sale that develop as much as 800HP and still meet emission standards and get decent fuel economy at the same time. 30 years ago, probably everyone would have laughed at us if we had predicted in 30 years such cars would ever be available. In the discussions with EPA and NHTSA, California held the tightest on the standards that eventually emerged and were set. The proposed rollback is really a joke and EPA staff know it but they can't say anything these days with a muzzle on the technical staff's mouths and it was NHTSA that was given the responsibility to cut back the standards because they wanted to do the least during the discussions. And both California and EPA staffs know the analysis NHTSA did for this administration is deeply flawed with wrong assumptions to get their revised numbers and try to justify them. In short, today's new vehicles have California fingerprints all over them. Enjoy!
So no, we do not yet have good enough power generation in our state, but that doesn't mean that we can't work our hardest with our best to get well towards the goal sooner than later. And there are many business interests that are looking hard at also working on new business ventures.
So go ahead and conclude the road ahead is impossible but we in California at least will show you how to do it no matter how long it takes. If the rest of the US had our vision and work ethic rather than spend their time denying what is real and working as hard as they can to ruin this country, then go ahead. We will beat you and really make America great again.
The current BS going on in much of the rest of the nation is just ruining our country and dividing us up and creating chaos. Someone needs to explain to me the roadmap that is being used currently in the U.S. to make us great - I just don't see it. And the rest of the world is pitying us for what we have become and wonder how it happend so fast.
If you are scared of the possibility of failure or very hard work ahead, California doesn't need you nor your wimpering.
