California's Big Green energy scheme makes electric cars a bad buy

 Daily Caller:

California electricity bills are among the highest in the nation and are set to continue skyrocketing, putting state and national green ambitions in the spotlight.

The state’s largest energy providers reported average monthly bills dwarfing those of other states in 2021, E&E News reported. If prices keep rising, as current projections say they will, electric vehicles will continue to be more expensive than traditional gas-powered cars.

The surging prices could act as an impediment for the electric vehicle industry in the state. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order in 2021 banning new traditional gas vehicles by 2035 while President Joe Biden outlined a nationwide goal of having electric vehicles account for half of total car sales by 2030.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has repeatedly said Americans should buy electric vehicles to avoid the fluctuating costs of gasoline. (RELATED: Electric Vehicle Push Is Sparking Massive Deforestation, Environmental Damage)

“It’s a huge problem,” Severin Borenstein, the director of the Energy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, told E&E News.

“Or we’re gonna mandate electrification and then there’s just going to be huge political blowback,” he added. “Mandating electrification when you’re charging people 30 or 40 cents a kilowatt-hour is going to be immensely expensive.”
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It will get even worse as California abandons fossil fuels for electricity goes all wind and solar.  They will have less reliable electricity and more people using it at night when solar is producing nothing. 

See, also:

Dems Tell Americans: We’ve Done Our Part To Reduce Gas Prices 
Dems push costly electric vehicles to offset surging gas prices

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 "Only a career politician like Frank Pallone would think a $700 monthly lease of an electric vehicle is the solution to an $80-a-month gas price increase," Turner told the Washington Free Beacon. "It's pure ignorance. It's pure political posturing from a party petrified that they will lose their majorities in a few more months."

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