Did you want to have solar panels? Or, would you prefer to use the energy from your utility company, alternate fuels, natural gas or the energy source of your choice? If a bill introduced by the openly racist Senator Kevin De Leon, hater of jobs and lover of taxes, you will be forced to use solar and windmill power—provided by the utilizes—they will have no choice. This is called socialism, the government control of the means of production.
“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.
Note that Sacramento is going to take control of 25% of your farm—you must use 25% of the farm for windmills. Thought you owned your property? Not in the totalitarian State of California. This is really an effort to force farmers to leave the State. If passed, who would be willing to pay for windmills and property taxes on property you no longer control?
California Requires Solar Panels on All Homes and Windmills on All Farms
Bruce Bialosky, Townhall, 7/16/17
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 in 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.
About Stephen Frank
As the costs of energy rise, the level of society drops. This has been an axiom for thousands of years.
Wonder what the tree huger’s that have been growing trees interfering with light, air and views of their neighbors will say when they are told to cut them down or trim them dramatically.
Now about stupidity and elections.
Really???: We’re not supposed to worry about trees converting CO2 to O2 and being nesting sites for birds and other habitat uses. We’re not supposed to worry about the pollution to make, install and maintain these things. Never mind that the windmills kill birds. Never mind the pollution caused by shipping more food from out of state.
All of this anti carbon-based fuel stuff is nonsense. For proof anyone can do and see go to: http://ScienceFrauds.blogspot.com and read, “CO2 Is Innocent” and do the demo experiment for a few Dollars and you will know what a fraud this is, has been and may well destroy America.
Google “Two Minute Conservative” for more.
So my house was built from combining three cabins built in the 1960’s with 2×4’s as ceiling rafters. They won’t support solar panels. What’s more I have 125-150 foot trees on the south and west sides of the house that keep the house in the shade most of the year. So I’m supposed to install solar panels before selling it? Our legislators have been breathing too much helium – airheads! Furthermore if the legislation focuses on minorities for subsidies, that is outright discrimination.
Satire, this is satire. Townhall should have labeled it as such because, as with all things California, it is easy to believe this could be reality.
Stephen Frank please explain this green gestapo “deal” Americans have been getting from energy companies. Don’t tell me, tell the people because I already know we are getting royally fleeced.
As I have found out from 9 years of research, wind industry studies are routinely riddled with methodologies that allow developers to exclude vital information. Compounding matters, our Interior Department accepts and even cites the wind industry’s false research. Then the fact that our Interior Department will not conduct research that adheres to scientific standards and has bestowed voluntary regulations/guidelines for the wind industry, proves to me that collusion is absolutely taking place.
This is never a good “deal” for the people.
This is also a bad “deal”………Since 1997 over 35,000 bald and golden eagles have been secretly shipped to the Denver Repository. There has never been an accounting for all these eagles and there never will be due to laws created from corrupt entities linked with the wind industry. Yes the industry has admitted to killing a few of these eagles and they also admit to killing just a handful of bald eagles. Yet after lying for decades, in Dec 2016, fraudulent research and reports were used to pass laws allowing the killing of 4200 per year.
A good deal? Yes for developers, but for others, a simple case of premeditated fraud.
This ongoing green energy war on eagles and other flying species has escalated since our new President has come into office. A flood of massive industrial eagle slaughtering wind projects have come on the books. Many of these projects are located on the Great Lakes and in the Thousand Islands region of New York. From the documents I have read, every one of these projects should be thrown out for the submission of fraudulent non-scientific research and the concealment of impacts. These fraudulent submissions have come from the Interior Department and wind energy developers.
It is very obvious to me the Department of Veterans Affairs is not the only DC agency that needs overhauled.
The people in Rural America are being bullied and blighted by industrial wind. Self-righteous green shysters are rolling into small town America. With their billions, their paid off conservation groups and their army of mercenary henchmen, they steamroll over all of them. In the process a few token tax dollars are collected and lease holders make a few bucks, but for all these communities truth and justice non-existent due to fraud.
And all of this is taking place for what benefit to the average Americans??????????????? A few jobs and a little bit of very expensive energy.
The truth is, taxpayers are sending billions upon billions to developers all over the world. They are also paying billions in absurd production tax credits to a fraud based industry. Making this an even worse deal, America is exporting enough cheap energy every year to cover every kilowatt of wind energy many times over.