No San Andreas needed. Californians will destroy themselves.

As if the public employee unions and their fixed guaranteed pensions for life aren’t doing enough to destroy California, get ready for another nail in the coffin.  Governor Jerry Brown today signed a renewable energy bill. He said, “Today we have something that is a real success story. It’s California leading the country, and the U.S. leading the world.” The only thing California is leading is an out of control freight train that is about to take a plummet off the Grand Canyon.

The bill requires California to obtain 33% of its energy resources from renewable resources. Renewable resources such as wind and solar power are notoriously inefficient and also very expensive. California already has the highest energy costs in the union not to mention the highest taxes as well.

 A study produced by the state shows that about 1/3 of the renewable energy will come from wind power. A study from the John Muir Trust (John Muir himself being a famous environmentalist) shows that wind energy policies in the UK have been a complete disaster. “Over a 2 year period the metered wind farms in the UK consistently generated far less energy than wind proponents claim is typical. The intermittent nature of wind also gives rise to low wind coinciding with high energy demand. Sadly wind power is not what it’s cracked up to be and cannot contribute to energy security in the UK.”

 Millions of dollars of tax payer money were recently wasted on wind turbines for an LA County college. They didn’t realize till after they were built, that there wasn’t any wind there. Their wind capacity on average is only enough to generate enough power for a 60 watt light bulb. If you have a hot windless day and everyone is running their AC and 1/3 of the power is suppose to come from wind, you don’t have any energy on a day that you need it. But don’t hold your breath! Of course the wonderful government has a plan to solve the problem. The government would require electricity users to install devices which would shut down equipment on short notice. In other words, if the wind dies down and we can’t get the power, you’re just going to have to turn stuff off or they’ll make you. So if there isn’t enough power they’ll just take it away from you after making you pay for it!

Natural gas has come down in price and could be the logical answer for California (logic and California never seem to go together these days), but the green crusaders must have it their way. They don’t care what the results are or what makes sense as long as they can feel good about themselves. They don’t care that it will cost California an additional 28% in energy costs over the next 10 years. Why would anyone start a business in California where they are going to charge you 1/3 more power and then turn it off when there isn’t enough?  Turns out you don’t need the San Andreas to destroy California. Californians will do it to themselves.