New Bill in California Requires Solar Panels on All Homes and Windmills on All Farms

From: townhall.com,  by Bruce Bialosky,  on Jul 16, 2017, emphasis is Garnet92’s

As you are aware, Governor Jerry Brown has stated that California will go its own way during the Trump Administration.  One of the biggest issues that Brown and his allies in the state legislature have focused on is climate change.  They have decided to take matters into their own hands and make California a totally renewable energy state.

The California Senate Majority Leader Kevin de León has introduced a new bill that would mandate the Golden State get all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2045.  This replaces a law that was passed in 2016 that dictated that renewable energy sources be 50% of all electricity produced by 2030.  This bill moves that requirement up to 2025 with the 50% edict and establishes the new 100% standard 20 years later.

What has not been widely discussed in the press – and buried in the details of the bill – is that all new homes and all homes sold must have solar panels as their source of energy.  All apartment buildings with more than four units must install solar panels by 2025, and all commercial and office buildings must do the same.  As for farms, they must commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.

A Democratic member of the Senate told us “We cannot wait any longer to save the planet.  The time is now.”  We asked him about the economic effect of the bill.   He stated, “This will be a huge economic stimulus for California.  Now all my family members who are here as undocumented workers can get a job.  It will take the burden off me of supporting them.  Who do you think is going to climb on all those roofs and install those solar panels?”  

“We are very concerned about the effects on the poor of California.  California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.”  We asked the Senator how the people outside Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills are going to pay for the costs of upgrading their homes.  The Senator spoke of the federal subsidies for this.  

He then said, “California has its own program and we plan on expanding that.  The program, of course, will be income qualified and aimed toward identified minorities.”  Expanding on that issue, he said anyone who can show they are Black, Hispanic, LGBTQ or disabled will get a special subsidy.  We are particularly targeting our Native American friends.  As long as you can prove you are at least 1/16 Native American we will provide a full subsidy for those individuals.”

We asked how he came up with that standard.  The Senator replied “If the standard is good enough for Harvard it is good enough for California.

The reaction from the farming community was the most pronounced.  They have been hard hit by water shortages.  The farmers are already at war with the state because they think the elected officials care more about the Delta Smelt than feeding Americans.

The backlash was most agitated from organized farm interest groups.  Steve Manger, President of the California Farm Association, was not shocked by the plan.  He told us, “What the hell, they have taken all of our water away from us for growing crops.  They have killed the breadbasket of America; why not put those ugly contraptions on the fallow land?”

Bud Jorgensen of Meadowland Farms is already participating in the windmill program. He said “I used to grow cauliflower on that acreage over there, but once Mrs. Obama started that lunch program nobody wanted our crops anymore.  So we put in them damn windmills.  All we do all day is pick up dead birds. Cannot get ammo to shoot them anyway with the new laws in California.  The only good part of this is Cheryl makes a mean crow stew.”

Citing the fact that German energy costs have soared to twice the cost of the United States because of the German government’s requirements regarding renewable energy, the Consumer Federation of California (CFC) expressed concern over costs that would be passed on to consumers.  A spokesperson for CFC questioned the wisdom of this: “How are we supposed to sue the power companies when they get their energy off peoples’ roofs.”

A leader on the California State Assembly told us “This is the issue of our time.  We will not stop until there are solar panels on every home and windmills in every corner of the state.  We are going to save this planet whether they want to be saved or not.”  We thanked the Assemblywoman as we heard McFadden and Whitehead’s Ain’t No Stopping Us Now playing in the background in her office.

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It’s time to call for an immediate (and covert) investigation into who among California’s legislators and their families has a financial interest in solar panels, windmills, and contractors who will install and maintain those facilities. They say the bill will be a “huge economic stimulus” for the state – more accurately, it’s a “huge economic stimulus for those engaged in insider trading,” e.g. the legislative bodies and their cohorts. As the old saying goes, follow the money.

I hope that it’s also a huge draw for illegal aliens to move from their current locations to California – “go west, young Juan, Luis, Jesus, Miguel, go west” seems appropriate. Just think, this could be like another gold rush with hordes of “undocumented casual visitors” moving there to land those new jobs. If most of our illegals fled Texas and moved to California, we could return to the days of hearing English spoken in our restaurants and our teens would once again have starter jobs. We’d have to cut grass and clean our own homes again, but it’d be worth it.

I’m sure the brain surgeons in California will have no trouble with increasing crime, increases in welfare benefits, overcrowding of schools and jails and the like – after all, they are the intellectual elite, right? They know everything and are adept at handling finances. Not to worry, that $1.6 Billion budget deficit is just a fluke, they really know what they’re doing.

No problem, they’d just levy some new taxes, like increasing the fares on the soon-to-be-completedstarted Bullet Train riders, for example. And they aren’t concerned that housing prices will go through the roof (literally) with the addition of a self-contained solar generating station in every home sold. It’s not as if housing in California is already out-of-reach for ordinary humans, what’s another five or ten thousand on top of already exorbitant prices?

And the state will be essentially confiscating a quarter of the farmland to erect windmills (bird Cuisinarts). That ought to rile up those pesky Smeltophobics who are already lower than bait fish on the food chain. 

Everyone except heterosexual white taxpayers will get subsidies, federal and state, to help them sustain their standard of living – non-LGBTQ whites need not apply.

Not so fast Chit-for-brains, do you really think that President Trump is going to give California a blank check to cover their anti-Trump asses? And I don’t want A DIME of my hard-earned tax money going to pay for Jerry Brown’s magic mushroom hallucinations.

As I’ve said before, California used to be viewed as being as close to Utopia as any place in the nation. It’s still almost perfect with nice weather, mountains, and seashore readily available. If only something in the air or water hadn’t turned a sizeable portion of its residents into unhinged lunatics, California would still be the place to live – now, not so much.

Garnet92.



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  1. The up/down/”back” radiation greenhouse gas energy loop of the radiative greenhouse effect theory is pencil on paper, a spreadsheet cell, a “what if” scenario and NOT a physical reality.

    Without this GHG energy loop, radiative greenhouse theory collapses.

    Without RGHE theory, man-caused climate change does not exist.

    And with a snap of the fingers and “Presto!!” the bazillion dollar global climate change fantasy is suddenly unemployed.

    Must be why nobody is allowed to talk about this possibility. Not newsworthy enough? Or too far outside the fake news hysterical CAGW narrative?

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  2. does anyone know the actual number of this bill? If someone has read the actual bill then please state the number of it so the rest of us can look it up for verification. Thanks.

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  3. Sorry folks, I jumped the gun on this one.

    Much of the article is NOT true, however, there are requirements that reserve space on roofs for solar panels, so perhaps that’s where Mr. Bialosky got his idea for that mandate.

    But, as Dave says, I researched it as well and found none of those other issues anywhere in the actual text of the bill.

    Sorry I didn’t check it out sooner. It’s just so in keeping with the other looney legislation coming out of California recently that I assumed it to be true.

    My bad.

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    • “Falsehood is never so false as when it is very nearly true.”
      – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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    • Some twisted people think it is funny to prank other people with Fake News.

      I don’t. I’d like to go back in time and strangle The Onion in its crib.

      I hate The Onion‘s thousand nauseating imitators even more than I hate The Onion, itself. The Onion at least had originality going for it, in the beginning. Most of the imitators have never been either original or funny. They’re just intentionally deceptive click-bait, with names designed to sound like legitimate news sites.

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    • I read the article in the Trinity Gazette. I also does not contain the bill number which is so annoying. All information such as this should always always be accompanied by the bill number. Otherwise, it certainly does cast doubt and make one wonder what they are hiding. I will be very disappointed if I find that the article falsely represented this bill, in a paper I have subscribed to, but I sure need to read the bill for myself.

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  4. From Dave Burton’s link I came across this quote:

    “Twenty-eight years ago, the world was just discovering the internet. We had no idea just how rapidly and completely the internet would change our lives,” [Senate President pro Tempore Kevin] de León said. “That’s the type of opportunity we have today in California, with clean energy.”

    Maybe someone should inform Senator de León that no one had to pass laws forcing people to use the internet.

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  5. And another 500,000 or so will migrate to other parts of the US…

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    • I’m not so sure about that Dave. This bill replaces the earlier one and ups the time table. Kevin de Leon has been pushing this for months and now the new guy, Scott Wiener has jumped on board.

      https://www.probuilder.com/california-legislator-proposes-statewide-solar-mandate-new-buildings

      http://www.courthousenews.com/california-lawmaker-wants-statewide-solar-mandate/

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      • The idiotic bill, its idiotic goals, and the imbecilic California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) are real, unfortunately. The rest is a hoax.

        Here’s a comparison between the first version of the bill and the current version:
        https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB100&cversion=20170SB10098AMD
        (Ctrl-F will enable you to search for words and phrases which are in either version.)

        As you can see:

        * neither version requires that “new homes and all homes sold must have solar panels as their source of energy.”

        * neither version contains a requirement that farms “commit 25% of their acreage to windmills.”

        * neither version requires that “apartment buildings with more than four units must install solar panels”

        * neither version requires that “all commercial and office buildings must [install solar panels]”

        Plus, it should be obvious that:

        * no Senator has ever said, “Now all my family members who are here as undocumented workers can get a job. It will take the burden off me of supporting them. Who do you think is going to climb on all those roofs and install those solar panels?”

        * no California Senator said, “California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.”

        * no Senator said, that anyone who can show they are Black, Hispanic, LGBTQ or disabled [or Native American] will get a special subsidy.

        Etc, etc., etc.

        It is all lies. Very OBVIOUS lies.

        Come on, how can it not be obvious that this is a spoof?

        Bud Jorgensen of Meadowland Farms is already participating in the windmill program. He said “I used to grow cauliflower on that acreage over there, but once Mrs. Obama started that lunch program nobody wanted our crops anymore. So we put in them damn windmills. All we do all day is pick up dead birds. Cannot get ammo to shoot them anyway with the new laws in California. The only good part of this is Cheryl makes a mean crow stew.”

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  6. “We are going to save this planet whether they want to be saved or not.” By putting farmers out of business and forcing people to install solar panels.

    Subsidizing everyone but white guys, unless they’re queer, is called discrimination, but hey, it’s California, so it’s ok.

    The federal government bailed them out with drought assistance, then again with the Oroville Dam near-disaster, and on and on. Did they fix their dams? Nope, but mark my words, this ‘mandate’ will end up in another bailout too.

    These people are too stupid to be in charge of anything, yet we continue to prop them up and pay for their boondoggles.

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  7. And they have the nerve to call Donald Trump insane.

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  8. Yet again, we have Democrat politicians mandating the purchase of certain goods, which is not Constitutional.

    Yep, follow the money.

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