Because Gavin Newsom is not on our side, he is a useful villain/punching bag for the right. That is his role, he pretends to be on our side so he can create the media moments for conservatives to clip when they dunk on him while he simultaneously fucks over Californians for power and profit. Gavin Newsom is perfectly groomed to be the most insufferable and ineffectual Californian liberal politician possible, that is the point.

How well this works on liberals is terrifying but unsurprising.

Gavin Newsom is NOT on our side, please get this through your head, he is your enemies best friend.

Newsom is starting to look a whole fucking lot like controlled opposition, tbh. Theatrical (and sometimes, incidentally effective, but that doesn’t appear to be the root motivation) pushback on right wing stuff for the most part. And quiet acquiescence to a LOT of stuff that someone who actually gives a shit about lefty things would not tolerate.

A series of policies that ranged from disincentivizing to straight-up penalizing homeowners who have embraced rooftop solar. “Everybody likes to talk about how Florida and Texas are out-competing California right now on renewable energy,” says Bernadette Del Chiaro, a VP at the Environmental Working Group. “And there is a whole lot of truth to it, because California is totally getting in its own way.”

I mean, tap the breaks. Texas and Florida are also working to undermine rooftop solar.

But the incentives for the rollout are often too strong. The Texas electric grid - loosely managed by ERCOT in order to maximize revenues for gas electric power utilities - have resulted in a blowback of routine brownouts and sky high seasonal bills. Florida's own utility mismanagement, worsened by sever weather and routine major flooding events, has resulted in a DIY home electricity approach.

California's own degraded and dysfunctional state grids have produced the same perverse incentives, even as wind and solar farms flourish thanks to the sub-fossil fuel price for installation by the MWh. This is unfortunate because rooftop solar simply isn't as efficient as the industrial scale utility-level projects that power the grid as a whole. Rooftop solar is a backstop against price gouging and grid malfunction, but it isn't in any way cost-efficient relative to a public sector wholesale rate for electricity.

Green Energy should be a windfall for electricity consumers, but it is turning into a price ceiling for greedy privatized utility companies, instead.

same as the Oldsom