California

Plugged Suez Canal will result in Californians being plucked at the pumps

California is the only state in contiguous America that relies on most of its oil demands from 10,000 miles away.

By Ronald Stein |2021-04-02T08:32:53-04:00March 30th, 2021|Comments Off

Newsom’s energy agenda biased against his voters

It is no surprise that Governor Newsom's energy policies—causing the highest utility costs in the nation, have harmed minority communities the most.

By Ronald Stein |2021-03-21T11:22:56-04:00March 22nd, 2021|Comments Off

Humane Society-backed lawmaker withdraws CA bear hunting ban bill

Join Gabriella for a conversation about a California black bear hunting ban bill being withdrawn by a Democrat state senator. Listen.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2021-02-04T19:13:07-05:00February 4th, 2021|Comments Off

California secretly struggles with renewables

California has hooked up a grid battery system that is almost ten times bigger than the previous world record holder, but when it comes to making renewables reliable it is so small it might as well not exist. The new battery array is rated at a storage capacity of 1,200 megawatt hours (MWh); easily eclipsing the record holding 129 MWh Australian system built by Tesla a few years ago. However, California peaks at a whopping 42,000 MW. If that happened on a hot, low wind night this supposedly big battery would keep the lights on for just 1.7 minutes (that's 103 [...]

By David Wojick |2021-01-16T11:35:39-05:00January 16th, 2021|Comments Off

Last sighted in 1924, will grizzlies return to California?

California was once known as the “Bear State Republic” and even sports a grizzly on its own state flag. Nevertheless, grizzlies no longer reside in the Golden State.

By CFACT Ed, CFACT |2020-11-03T00:28:53-05:00November 4th, 2020|Comments Off

The dark side of Governor Newsom’s gas-powered vehicle ban

The pictures of the ecological damage are breathtaking, but the human damage is much worse.

By CFACT Ed, Ronald Stein |2020-10-18T14:16:14-04:00October 19th, 2020|Comments Off

California’s energy nightmare is coming to Virginia

For a harbinger of their energy future, Virginians need look no further than California. It’s not a pretty picture.

By CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2020-10-19T09:21:41-04:00October 18th, 2020|Comments Off

California brown-outs illustrate the dystopian outcomes of utopian targets

Power plants with the ability to produce almost 6,000 megawatts, or about 15 percent of the electricity on California’s grid, were reported as being offline when temperatures surged.

By CFACT Ed, Kenneth Green |2020-10-12T07:50:41-04:00October 9th, 2020|Comments Off

Subtracting fossil fuels plus adding electric cars equals disaster

If California’s struggle to keep the lights on isn’t already dim enough, Golden State residents should brace themselves for even darker prospects with a planned ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

By Larry Bell |2020-10-04T07:07:49-04:00October 4th, 2020|Comments Off

Ramifications of California Governor Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles

Newsom’s recent suicidal jump onto the EV train will devastate California's economy and environment:

By CFACT Ed, Ronald Stein |2020-10-04T07:06:25-04:00October 3rd, 2020|Comments Off

Wildfires and the spotted owl hoax

The listing of the owl under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) devastated timber-dependent communities and, as it turns out, inflicted enormous ecological harm on the region’s forests.

By CFACT Ed, Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2020-10-04T07:02:35-04:00October 2nd, 2020|Comments Off

California to replace Cuba as vintage car capital of the world

Governor Newsom’s order to end the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 will make California a new dystopia where people will do anything to keep great old American cars on the road.

By CFACT Ed, Ronald Stein |2020-09-28T16:23:02-04:00September 25th, 2020|Comments Off

‘Climate arson’ and other wildfire nonsense

The real goal is to avoid responsibility for policies, and increase control over energy, lives, property.

By Paul Driessen |2020-09-23T08:36:29-04:00September 23rd, 2020|Comments Off

California’s Newsom vows to fight fire by copying Germany’s failed climate plan

Newsom wants to fast-track a California "Energiewende"

By Ronald Stein |2020-09-21T12:40:19-04:00September 21st, 2020|Comments Off

California’s energy scorecard fails on the world stage

While the growing world’s population pursues continuous uninterruptable electricity, California pursues intermittent electricity from wind and solar.

By CFACT Ed, Ronald Stein |2020-09-21T12:03:21-04:00September 19th, 2020|Comments Off