Climate Change? Nahhh ...

too much! / not enough!

California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars

Sure hope there's a rolling coal diesel carve-out!

 

I can't wait for the pickup truck flag brigade to jump out in force on this one...

I'm not against this in the slightest because we need to be going this way but it will be interesting to see what we do with the myriad of gas stations around the state. Will they be given resources to convert to charging stations? What will people moving in from out of state do? Or Nevadans/Arizonans do when they drive over (especially coming from Tahoe)? And then how will the state make electric vehicles more affordable for everyone once they start phasing out even used gas vehicles?

 

Wow! CO2 emissions from Californian's will plummet if they pull this off!

Narrator's voice: They won't. And they won't.

 

I agree that the state will probably not achieve its goal but a sitch to electric would certainly reduce CO2 emissions. If you respond that the greenies in California would have embrace carbon free to embrace nuclear Newsom is pushing to keep the Diabolo Canyon Nuclear plant open.

 

Depends on how much CO2 emissions from electricity generation increase relative to how much CO2 emissions from new cars decrease (because, remember, California ain't outlawing gasoline-powered automobiles).

 

Yeah that is going to be the big one. We need more wind and solar generation on the grid for this to be a net benefit. It was true 15 years ago—I don't know if it is still true or how bad it is—one of the biggest things holding back more solar farms installed by a private entity (for public consumption) was lack of grid space. So Con Ed couldn't handle the additional load with the other sources of power they already generate. So we need to remove some gas-powered plants and get more alt sources generation up and running.

 

However electricity in California is generated, PG&E will both suck and rip off its customers.

 

Probably incinerate a lot of them, too.

 

Went out to get the mail this morning around 10 and some heavy raindrops were just starting to fall. About 30 seconds later the skies opened up with the volume of a heavy summer thunderstorm — and then maintained that volume for three straight hours. One small area maybe 45 minutes away got 13 inches of rain. Most places around here got 4-6 inches in those three hours, and that's after 3.5 inches fell yesterday. We might also get a few more inches tonight and tomorrow. We normally don't get this kind of rain in August unless a hurricane is coming through.

Our house is situated pretty well. We're at the top of a hill and I've deduced that it would take a Noah-level rain event to flood us out. But the people deeper in the neighborhood, toward the bottom of that hill and near a drainage creek, had water coming up to their porches.

 

Well, they won't be doing anything like that in Alabama.

https://www.al.com/business/2021/02...op-greenhouse-gas-emitter-in-the-country.html


"Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. plant in Jefferson County is once again the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the country, according to an environmental policy non-profit organization.


According to the report, the Miller plant produced nearly 19 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 - equivalent to more than half of the electricity generated by all of the power plants in California."


Coal fired power plants produce 27% of the greenhouse emissions in the U.S.