via washingtonexaminer:
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers expressed his deep dissatisfaction with his home state of California.
Rodgers complained about California in a yet-to-be-released interview with Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast, per SFGATE. The episode will be released Sunday.
“State’s going to s*** but I’m hanging on,” Rodgers told Maher.
Indeed it is – or actually it’s already there!
Look at this beautiful California home!
Say, “hi” to the neighbors.
How are they are ever going to sell their home? This is what “progress” looks like in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/AQxBeQFJIl
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 10, 2022
Oakland, California pic.twitter.com/wgrJJkmGPr
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) September 9, 2022
CALIFORNIA’S ELECTRIC BOOGALOO TO NOWHERESVILLE:
As it did with emissions standards, California likely thinks it can strong-arm other states or Congress to adopt its electric-car mandate. Texas (among other states) might have something to say about that. And what if car companies and consumers don’t go along with this extravagant target? The New York Times reported a crucial caveat:
To enforce its rule . . . California would fine automakers up to $20,000 for every car that falls short of production targets. The state also could propose new amendments revising the sales targets if the market doesn’t react as state leaders hope, said Jennifer Gress, who leads the California air board’s sustainable transportation division. [Emphasis added.]
That language about “amendments” is the Emily Litella “never mind” clause. It has happened before. In a prequel to the current madness, in the early 1990s California tried to mandate that 5 percent of all new cars sold by the year 2001 be emission-free, which meant electric cars in practice. GM publicized lots of happy talk about its EV-1, a crappy electric car that cost six-figures (though it was “leased” at an implied purchase price of about $35,000), had a pathetically short range (50 miles on a good day), and took several hours to recharge. Not long before the mandate was set to take effect, it was quietly abandoned.
Electric cars have gotten much better in recent years, but in a state where lots of drivers travel well beyond the range of an electric vehicle every day, EVs still won’t meet the needs of a large number of Californians—never mind citizens of rural states that need vehicles that can run all day long. Look for history to repeat itself with the California EV mandate.
Perhaps California should sorted out its “Potemkin environmentalism” and shored up its electrical generation issues before it paid lip service to banning the internal combustion engine.
h/t Dan