Ronald Stein

To the detriment of Californians, the costs of expensive imported electricity are being borne by residents and businesses alike, and are precisely hard-hitting to disadvantaged residents.

Cheap expressions of sympathy and solidarity to inner-city residents from the affluent are negated with imposition of unbearable costs for the energy to survive.

Until the voters say enough-is-enough, the infliction of more costs by our elected officials and environmentalists onto the suppliers, that are paid by the users, will continue into perpetuity.

The only things ‘inevitable’ about the ‘transition’ to wind and solar are rocketing electricity prices and unstable power grids.

California Governor Gavin Newsom needs to show actual science if he continues to shut down California’s economy.

Endless subsides for intermittent electricity are no longer in Mexico’s budget.

As America recovers from the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates, California cannot rid itself from the continuing and state-prescribed high costs of energy that other states are not shackled with.

For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe.

Taxing the rich has seemed to be one of the Band-Aid solutions for California’s budget, but that’s dangerous as seventy percent of the General Fund is already provided by personal taxes on just five percent of the population.

In these trying times coping with the Coronavirus, and its huge impact on businesses and employment, the younger generations have been set up to pick up some the costs of the defined benefits that their parents and grandparents voted in for themselves.

America has known for years that Vladimir Putin of Russia has been influencing the source of America’s energy consumption through his efforts to halt fracking in America.

Unless pension funds around the nation continue to earn 7% or more per year on their investments, it’s likely that taxpayers will be on the hook for trillions of dollars of promises to government unions.

Both China and India view energy as an amoral source of power that is to be used for survival and advancement during this century. The rest of the world should take careful note.