Gavin's secret Thanksgiving recipe? Prioritizing greenwashing and forgetting about transmission maintenance...
Yahoo Finance (11/25/21) reports: "The largest utility in Southern California cut power for more customers in the mountains near Los Angeles as strong winds raised the risk of wildfire, marking the second year in a row that parts of the region will spend Thanksgiving in the dark. Edison International’s Southern California utility halted electricity to 63,835 homes and businesses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties as of 10:36 a.m. local time to avoid having live wires spark blazes as a wind storm bore down on the drought-stricken region. More than 200,000 customer accounts could lose service in the regions around Los Angeles and San Diego, according to the local utilities. Power companies in California have taken to switching off electric lines in advance of strong winds after a series of deadly wildfires were sparked by their equipment. It’s just one of the ways in which years of drought are reshaping life in the Golden State, home to about 40 million people. Last year, Southern California Edison cut electricity to more than 20,600 homes and businesses on Thanksgiving Day, when many people were sheltering at home due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic.."
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"Instead of celebrating what fossil fuels have allowed us to do, many politicians condemn them for contributing to global warming. Last year, Joe Biden said, 'We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.' But on Tuesday he announced the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s hard to take doomsday predictions seriously from someone who treats his sagging poll numbers as a more dire threat than global warming."
–Victor Joecks,
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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