The country remains unaware that more than 99% of the world's population lives outside its borders.
Ronald Stein, PEHe is an engineer, energy literacy columnist for America Out Loud NEWS, energy literacy consultant for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Clean Energy Development.”
Published on December 2, 2024, American Loud News
https://www.americaoutloud.news/california-purizes-its-little-air-bubble-at-the-expense-of-its-residents/
California Governor Gavin Newsom ignores the reality that the so-called energy transition is just a transition to electricity, as the state's 40 million residents continue to shoulder the costs of what he calls a transition away from fossil fuels.
Governor Newsom does not understand that wind turbines and solar panels can only generate electricity occasionally because wind turbines and solar panels cannot produce any of the more than 6,000 products currently made from crude oil or all forms of transportation fuels.
Californians continue to pay a high price for some of the cleanest air in the world, while much of the world gets its electricity from thousands of coal-fired power plants.
California’s extensive government regulations provide environmental consultants and attorneys with powerful ammunition to indefinitely delay or halt the progress of any project.
The Governor doesn't understand that wind turbines and solar panels themselves are 100% made from petroleum derivatives made from crude oil! Furthermore, electricity would not exist without crude oil because all parts of every power generation system (coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar) are also made from petroleum derivatives made from petroleum.
A special note about LANDMAN, the new TV series starring Billy Bob Thornton that supports energy literacy:
All components of California Governor Newsom’s net-zero emissions fantasy rely 100% on crude oil, the oil he wants to rid the world of.
As the Facebook trailer for “Landman,” the new TV series created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, demonstrates, Newsom fails to recognize the problems in our society Every product (that didn’t exist 200 years ago) is made from petroleum.
So before Newsom completely destroys California’s economy, Newsom needs to identify “alternatives” to crude oil to support the economy’s material needs before trumpeting net-zero emissions.
Be sure to watch the 90-second spot for the new LANDMAN episode:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1620339808894808
Additionally, everything that requires electricity to run, including iPhones, computers, data centers, and X-ray machines, are made from petrochemicals derived from crude oil. Without fossil fuels, there wouldn't be anything that would require electricity!
In pursuit of his missed transition to electricity, California's “Trump validation” began days after the November election when the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a group appointed almost entirely by Gov. Gavin Newsom, ’s regulatory commission — passed new updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that require “dirty” transportation fuel producers to purchase more credits from “clean” transportation fuel producers. The new LCFS will provide an estimated $105 billion in electric vehicle charging credits and $8 billion in hydrogen credits, paid for primarily through gasoline and diesel fees, which the state will pass on to drivers and consumers.
California's 40 million people represent only 0.4% of the planet's 8 billion people. Another 99.6% of the world's population lives outside national borders.
Under Governor Newsom's so-called “leadership,” California gas prices could rise another $1.15 per gallon next year due to the state's new carbon credit system, taxes, refinery regulations and the closure of the Phillips 66 refinery in 2025.
- The state's newly adopted carbon credit requirements could increase the retail price of regular gasoline by 40 to 65 cents per gallon in 2025.
- New refinery regulations passed by the governor during a special legislative session last month would increase prices by 5 to 27 cents per gallon.
- The announcement of the closure of the Phillips 66 refinery following the introduction of new refinery regulations will increase the price of oil by another 8 to 14 cents per gallon.
- Because California gas taxes rise in line with the state's price index, gas taxes will rise by 1 to 2 cents per gallon in 2025.
These fuel cost increases contribute to inflation and high costs of living in California and disproportionately adversely affect low-income Californians.
- Governor Newsom is personally insulated from rising fuel costs because he travels to and from his office in Sacramento in a state-owned gasoline truck.
What most wealthy Californians fail to notice is that about 80% of the world's 8 billion people (many of whom live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America) still live on less than $10 a day, while billions still barely No access to electricity. For others, life has become deeply complicated and influenced by the hypocritical “green” agenda of elites in rich countries, who have reaped huge benefits from fossil fuels since the beginning of the modern industrial era in the 1800s.
In “Clean Energy Development,” a book that helps citizens understand the environmental and human abuses that support clean energy, the book discusses the green movement's lack of transparency into the impact of human development that mines exotic minerals in developing countries and the creation and storage of “green energy.” “The metals needed for batteries.
In these developing countries, mining operations disproportionately impact low-income communities, exploit child labor, and cause the worst human rights violations of vulnerable minority groups. These mining operations also directly damage the planet through environmental degradation.
6 minute video of John Stossel
Explains how minerals are needed for green energy in the United States, but the United States prevents new mines from being mined on American soil. While richer countries spend billions on so-called clean electricity from wind and solar, these developed countries financially encourage China and Africa to continue exploiting “their” yellow, brown and black poor , and financially support environmentalists destroying “their” landscaping just to enforce the mandatory use of electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels in “our backyard”!
Shockingly, wealthy California and its “green mandate” continue to saddle its residents with the enormous costs of transitioning to electricity and support unethical, unethical and hypocritical practices that source exotic minerals and minerals from poorer developing countries. Metals to enable the electric transformation.
An analogy for the small impact that 40 million Californians have on a planet of 8 billion people is that one person peeing in the ocean does not change the temperature of the water!
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