With the government, nothing is unintended.
one more example of how the Golden State has been driven to the edge of idiocy and beyond.. unintended consequences? maybe not..
karma, baby, karma.
Heck going green is expensive. Read in yesterday’s OCR that the city of San Clemente charges a 14,000 permit fee to install solar power on your own home.
How do you recharge your car during a rolling blackout?
btw,
There is no shortage of energy in the form of electricity and sources to produce it.. only a lack of resolve to use the resources readily available and build the new technology nuclear power plants and clean coal plants and LNG terminals..
but that is a vision thingy, many still can’t get by 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl in their teeny little brains... a vision which the Gubinator held along with other who retain the reins of state gubamint and demanded that we had to go renewable.
Define renewable? too bad politicos weren’t also “renewable”.
The economic case for a plug in hybrid is tenuous enough with the extra upfront cost of these vehicles. Basically there was no advantage, with average electricty costs.
Now, in CA with thier punish the rich electric pricing structure; you have to pay big to be green. Right.
Note: I was a PG&E customer for 20 years.
Everyone will probably have to pay a 5-10 dollar tax on their bill that will go toward charging electric cars owned by the “indigent”.
Anything over about 560 kilowatt hours a month puts you into tier 4 with California’s PG&E. Tier 4 is just over $0.40 per kilowatt hour. Tier 5 was recently lowered from over 49 cents per kwh to be the same as tier 4.
That 560 kilowatt hours per month will run your fridge, a few lights a TV and a computer, but not much else. Certainly not an electric car.
This is why it can actually make economic sense to buy a solar system in CA, but fueling an electric car in CA could end up way more expensive than gas or diesel.
We put in an 8.1 KW solar system at the Easy Street residence last year, which is expected to generate around 11.5 megawatt hours per year, and it took our PG&E bill from over $700 a month down to $100-$200 per month. (Even lower in summer months.) Adding an electric car to our stable would put us right back into the top tiers again.
So, then it might be cheaper to charge your hybrid by running the gasoline engine. Cool!
I would love to know how many people who live in California know where electricity comes from. I think you would be amazed. ( ... or maybe not).
More unintended consequences.......