Onward, Climate soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the Globe of Gaia,
Going on before.

If ever there was a state singing the song of the Climate Cultists, that state is California and the unctuous, manipulative high priest leading the chorus from his Dias is Gavin “Randall Flagg” Newsom.

His policies and arrogant diktats -codified and enforced by a network of uber-Progressive elected and appointed officials – have taken the once halcyon, rock-solid Golden State into an age of uncertainty, economic upheaval, and citizen/tax base out-flight. No extreme position based on the flimsiest of Climate Change Science™ or fabulism is too extreme to become legal and binding in CA, tangible, documentable harm to the citizenry be damned.

It’s always “The Future” with these Green schemers and why?

Because you can’t prove the future, unlike the experienced, imposed misery of the here and now. Regrettably, deteriorating lifestyle conditions “now” are allowable and noble (but not shared) sacrifices “the people” must be forced to abide in in the name of “the future.” You’ll notice that the future is never better for you and me – it’s just their metric of success for the climate.

Besides – our ruling class knows “the people” are too stupid to understand the plan in any event. Even when they come right out and baldly lay it on you.

Like this lovely lady from the WEF, talking about “the poor.” She means you and me, you know – precisely as Newsom with “Californians” when he talks in big Green terms. Benevolent dictators.

Same same.

World Economic Forum 'agenda contributor' and CEO of Rabo Carbon Bank, Barbara Baarsma, argues the case for a personal carbon allowance:

"If I want to fly, I buy some carbon emission rights from someone who can't afford to fly, for example… Or if someone lives in a small… pic.twitter.com/Ur1N7KEWKF

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) June 1, 2023

“If I want to fly, I buy some carbon emission rights from someone who can’t afford to fly, for example… Or if someone lives in a small house, he can sell his carbon emission rights to someone who lives in a big house. This way, poor people can benefit from the green economy.“

The Newsoms, Bidens, progressives, Greens, and globalists of the world are doing YOU the big favor, you see?

Sometimes, though, they get out a little ahead of their skis, and darned if they don’t have to do some quick tap-dancing to cover their tracks before “the people” either notice something amiss – like the constant, blazing hypocrisy – or wake up entirely and demand an end to the current regime.

The governor is in that position right now. He has shoved his state so perilously close to the climate cliff energy-wise, that he is in search of stop-gap measures to keep the magic trons flowing through the wires, and he’s in a hurry. Why?

Because summer’s coming, and it gets HOT.

For most of the year, California’s quest to rid itself of fossil fuels seems on track: Electric cars populate highways while energy from wind, solar and water provides much of the power for homes and businesses.

Then it gets hot, and everyone in the nation’s most populous state turns on their air conditioners at the same time. That’s when California has come close to running out of power in recent years, especially in the early evenings when electricity from solar is not as abundant.

Now, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to buy massive amounts of renewable energy to help keep the lights on. The idea is to use the state’s purchasing power to convince private companies to build largescale power plants that run off of heat from underground sites and strong winds blowing off the coast — the kinds of power that utility companies have not been buying because it’s too expensive and would take too long to build.

“We laid out the markers on solar and wind, but we recognize that’s not going to get us where we need to go,” Newsom said during a news conference last week. “The issue of reliability has to be addressed.”

Well, that’s brilliant. The governor who proudly crowed about shutting down CA’s reliable, cheap nuclear power plants knows that summer is hot, which takes tons of extra electricity, or people get HOT AND CRANKY. Which is why they have to…

…avoid rolling blackouts, state officials turn on massive diesel-powered generators to make up the state’s energy shortfall…

…which is completely antithetical to “clean energy.”

That’s brilliant.

To Newsom, the obvious answer is to have companies build vastly expensive, unreliable power plants that take years – the companies build them, CA buys the electricity generated from them. Fed green subsidies, of course that means you and me, pick up a good portion of the construction cost.

For Schlitz and giggles – you have any idea what POTATUS’ Green subsidies in his latest boondoggle would put back in the economy if they were canceled?

The price tag of the Inflation Reduction Act’s green energy tax credits is much higher than originally thought. This week, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) provided a new score of the credits for the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of House Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill—which would eliminate the credits—and pegged the cost of the credits at $570 billion from 2023 to 2033, roughly double its original estimate of $270 billion over 10 years. Among other things, this indicates the Inflation Reduction Act does not reduce deficits after all.

Yeah. BRILLIANT.

Even better, for this round of catch-up, Newsom wants the state’s already over-burdened consumers to foot the bill. But he’s not saying anything about that part yet.

…Laugh if you must, but Mr. Newsom does seem to have succeeded in keeping Californians in the dark when it comes to the full cost of his energy plans, as the AP explains:

Customers would have to pay for the new power the state buys through a new, still undetermined, charge on their electric bills.

What a compelling proposal! Mr. Newsom is promising that Californians will pay more, but won’t reveal how much more while he’s seeking to enact his plan. How could anyone be opposed?…

All of the companies would be selling their product to a single buyer, the state – what could go wrong?

It’s brilliant, right?

…Publicly-owned utilities, like the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, fear the state’s entrance into the energy market will create new competition, potentially increasing prices for everyone in a market already struggling with a lack of supply.

Patrick Welch, legislative director for the California Municipal Utilities Association, said if California starts buying power the state would be competing with utilities “and that could further drive up prices.”

It’s not like CA consumers aren’t already paying through the nose for progressive renewable energy pipe dreams as it is.

What’s a couple more years and a couple more billions?

Just keep your mandated EV plugged in. They may need it to keep the a/c on THIS summer as not a spade of earth will move.