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Contributor: The high cost of California's green energy policies
- California experiences some of the nation’s steepest energy prices, with gasoline averaging $4.78 per gallon and electricity rates reaching 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour, the most expensive among the contiguous states.
- The state's aggressive green policies, including incentives for EVs and disincentives for refineries, aim to achieve carbon neutrality but raise energy prices and economic challenges.
- Studies show that these policies could threaten 148,000 jobs, slow industrial growth, and contribute to income declines for families earning under $100,000 annually.
- The California Air Resources Board predicts their policies will increase gasoline costs by 47 cents per gallon, while high electricity prices discourage investment and drive firms to other states.
- If California does not modify its policies to better integrate environmental objectives with cost-effective and dependable energy production from a variety of sources, the state is likely to experience worsening economic difficulties and energy shortages in the next decade.
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Real Clear PoliticsThe High Cost of California's Green Energy Policies
Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable. Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity in the state is now the highest in the continental U.S., at 30.22 cents per kilowatt hour. You might want to blame the…
LA Times: ‘The high cost of California’s green energy policies’ – ‘Cost of electricity in state is now the highest in the continental U.S.’ – ‘High energy prices are a self-inflicted wound’
By Joel Kotkin Excerpt: Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable. Gasoline in C…
Best way out for California is to go green - nuclear green
Sherman R. Frederick Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick California residents are stuck in an energy hell of their own making. The price of gasoline in the Golden State serves as a daily reminder of this. The average cost for a gallon is $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. And, right behind that ugly stat is the monthly power bill, where Californians pay the highest per kilowatt hour in the continental U.S. If you’d like to dig deeper i…
Wind And Solar Power Both Capricious and Costly
Bill Ponton reminds us that in addition to being fickle, renewables are also costly, in his American Thinker article What are the merits of renewables? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The Spanish blackout made us all aware of how unstable the grid can get when renewables are in the driver’s seat, […]
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