California’s state government has set an official goal of “net zero” by 2045. That’s less than 19 years from now. Already in pursuit of that goal, the state has managed to have the highest priced gasoline and the highest priced electricity in the entire continental United States.
Condemning its residents to a poverty inducing bleeding edge of energy progress in hopes of proving to the world that the “climate crisis” can be successfully addressed might be justifiable if, to begin with, we really face a climate crisis that will be alleviated by converting the entire world economy to net zero. It might even be justifiable if there were any signs that the massively more populous developing nations in the world were even slightly inclined to follow suit. And more to the point, even if those conditions were applicable, it might be justifiable if Californians, to date, had made any significant progress toward the goal of net zero.
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