California Issues ...

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How Negligence and Corruption Fueled California's Wildfires​

If Gruesome Newsome wins in 2028, the rest of the US might as well declare war on California. In fact, we should just fence it off right now.

If you're a conservative, get out. There should be funding to help conservatives flee places like California. We can take it out of whatever slush fund Biden is taking it from to send to Ukraine. If it turns out you're not a conservative, we seize your assets and drop you back into California and let you try and survive.

We need a border fence around Mexico, and around Northern Mexico (aka, California).

Maybe we should call it Hotel California - you can check in, but you can never leave.

30 years of my life in that once beautiful state, and now it's worse that some of the 3rd world sh*tholes I've been to, in exactly the same ways. Beautiful, glitzy tourist areas, but just beyond those, places that aren't safe to be in during the daylight hours, let alone at night.

 

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Liberals MELT DOWN Over Republicans DEMANDING Conditions To Democrat California Wildfire Aid!​

 

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Bill Maher CALLS OUT Liberals DEFENDING WOKE LA Mayor As ANGRY Residents DEMAND A RECALL Election!​

 

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And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims​

More pointedly, if you have no power for a week, as thousands of Los Angeles residents who live near the evacuated fire areas have experienced, you can't charge your car battery. What happens if the fire spreads and you can't get out?

When their lives depended on it, the diktats and mandates didn't help, but gas cars sure did.

The LA Times reported — and I'm sure it killed them to do it — that EV drivers are having a tough time of it.

You’ve plugged your electric vehicle into your home charger and hit the sack. Overnight, high winds topple a power line. Your charger blacks out. Then, a report of a fire, followed by an evacuation order. Your battery’s only charged to 25%. And it’s your only car.
Such are the fears some California car buyers are expressing amid the fires that have devastated Los Angeles County and forced people to evacuate their homes at a moment’s notice.

Believe it or not, there were no woke follow-up promises of ponies and unicorns in the LAT, though I'm sure they would have proved more useful than cars with dead batteries.

The Times brought anecdotes crystallizing some of the biggest problems with forcing people to have nothing but electric vehicles by 2035.

A gasoline car “can evacuate in any direction on any road and still get fuel when needed,” said Matthew Butterick, a Los Angeles attorney who lives near Griffith Park. “The EV stations on evacuation routes would have massive lines and delays, gasoline stations less so. And the electric grid may not be available. Power companies turn off power to avoid sparking a fire and also to avoid legal liability. This is probably the future of all the hillside neighborhoods.”
His sentiments were echoed by Val Cipollone, who lives in the wooded hills above Berkeley. She owns a Nissan Leaf, a full electric vehicle with a roughly 220-mile range, which she plans to sell.
“Who knows how far you’d have to drive” after a disaster, she said. “I used to think I’d only need to drive to my place of work. But who knows, I might have to go much farther.”

It bears noting that Jimmy Carter-like lines for electricity to power cars aren't any better than waiting in gas lines in 1973. Nobody wants that.

These people are waiting in subfreezing temperatures for gas — propane — with which to cook and keep warm. It's a three-mile-long line. This has been going on for weeks for the people in the hurricane-stricken areas of North Carolina.

 

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Oh, yeah, because the people they elect are so competent....