48 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa”

  1. “The rule will force automakers to speed up production of cleaner vehicles beginning in 2026.”

    Or the rule will make automakers say it’s too expensive to do business in California and they’ll stop doing so.

  2. They won’t ban people from selling used gasoline powered cars.

    Time to open a used car lot in Nevada?

    1. Of course they will, just like they will continue to attack gas stations with multitudes of regulations until they close…

      1. For poetic justice, he should get the Mussolini treatment. There has to be an Esso gas station canopy somewhere in California. Although, in a pinch, I guess an Exxon gas station would do.

  5. Sheesh…he almost had me there. I had a tinge of sympathy for Bahn until I read his “Privilige” thread which has a Step 5 from Alcoholics Anonymous vibe to it. Not that I have personal knowledge of such things.
    I guess the guilt of receiving a Honda from his immigrant Korean parents for graduating and his follow up success was a shame he could no longer bear.
    Enjoy your energy bills, putz.

  6. Last month – $209.00
    This month – $479.00 and our heat essentially NEVER goes on as the therm. is set to 61 deg.F all day except for 2hr. when I heat the house to 66 deg.F This is how old people freeze in the dark … which appears to be a feature, not a bug.

    Our newly remodeled house has R-42 ceilings, R-21 underfloor, R-21 walls … all over State standards. New dbl. pane windows, new 97% efficient furnace, and 95% efficient tankless WH. All new EnergyStar appliances. And we never wash/dry clothes during M-F Noon-9pm when rates are higher.

    And I expect next months bill to likely double. This “green” State is impoverishing the plebes.

    1. Kenji, A couple of years back you were saying you were leaving the state as soon as your wife retired. Did you guys change your plans?

      1. Wife’s retirement and
        Substantial home remodel.

        The wife’s past ready to retire, the home is … almost … done. However, home prices have cratered due to lack of buyer frenzy. Now, we’re stuck till the Bidinh and Fed financial shock goes away. I’m not selling the house for 28% below market of a year ago. Can’t and won’t do it. Our home value is most of our retirement security, so I cannot afford to have bad timing. Yeah, it sucks that both her optimal retirement year … AND … the remodel project missed the end of 2021 market peak.

        Now, the Bidinh torpedoing of our economy has caused our retirement ship to go find safe harbor and hunker down. So we will continue wearing a lot of fleece in the house … and curse the leftists who don’t understand economics as well as PDJT

        1. Should have included a fireplace in the remodel, I understand eco freaks burn with lots of therms put out.

          1. Cannot install wood burning, legally. Cannot burn wood in old installations unless extremely poor with government approved waivers. Must burn pellets or natural gas in bay area fireplaces.

          2. If you are running a crematorium you have to disclose your emissions in permit requests so it would need to be a non-commercial crematorium.

          1. Well, my friend, if my fu**ing continues unabated for years … I will eventually pull the plug and get the hell out of here. Flee to Montana or somewhere similar. After all, I will be a couple more years shorter of breath and closer to death … to quote Pink Floyd, and will have less use for my deflated nest egg.

            BTW … I did keep my masonry wood burning fireplace (which aren’t allowed in our county anymore) … and will add another gas-burning “fake” fireplace in our Family room … although with “Putin’s” gas prices …??

            However … it’s been a “no burn day” all week here in the 35 deg. Weather

        3. Sorry your plans were….disabled Kenji! I sure hope you at least got that Glock, you might need it!
          The sick sad and disgusting thing about all of this is that it’s being done deliberately!!!

          1. I’ve not yet gotten the glock, or the 12ga. Shotgun … modified for close combat. But the burglaries and home invasions keep getting closer, and the perps don’t give a shit about cameras anymore since the police won’t be bothered to look at them. Yeah … that’s gotta move up on my list

    2. Solano County resident here. Combined gas and electric was $570 last month. 73 year old, two story, wood-sided house with young kids home most of the time so thermostat is set higher, 61 to 68 depending on time of day. No home improvements except for double pane windows and a natural gas insert fireplace. Natural gas is getting pretty ridiculous so the fireplace is just for ambiance. We use natural gas-powered forced air for house heat. Not happy with the state of CA politics but our family roots run deep so we are here for many years most likely. Newish, gas-powered cars for us so no solar. Power goes out pretty often for various reasons. We bought a ‘disposable’ generator at Costco rather than splurge for the whole house noisy deals.

      1. I’m a 4th generation Californian … and we bred a 5th … so my roots run deeper than most. My Swedish great grandparents emigrated to America in the late 1800’s … to Erie, PA. And drove cross country to San Diego in their Model T in 1919. Dirt roads, no bridges, and Indians on horses selling pottery all along the way. I have my 18yo grandmothers journal of the almost 3mo. trip … which cannot be published unless I take out all the “racially insensitive” parts. From San Diego, my family moved up to the SF Bay Area in the 1930’s … to Piedmont … then Orinda after the Caldecott tunnel was built in 1937. I’ve lived most of my life in “Lamorinda” where I reside now.

        But my how CA has changed. It used to be fairly balanced between moonbeam governors and fiscally responsible conservatives. CA was simply beautiful in my youth … but a tripling of population has turned this place into a shithole. There are homeless encampments … tents and shantytowns under every freeway overpass and along every creek, drainage ditch and waterway … hey who can blame the Guatemalans for wanting “riverfront” property … where they can defecate and let it float downstream? The cost of living is OUTRAGEOUS in the SF Bay Area where you need to a shitload more that “coding” to make it here. I compare my cost of everything to my daughters home in Dana Point, CA … and it is a joke! We spend at least 20% less at her Ralphs as we do at our shitty Safeway with the black Tranny checker. We will eventually get driven out of here by taxes, inflation, “Lamorinda prices”, and general squalor … just like my grandparents did (before Prop.13) in the early 1970’s.

    3. “Our newly remodeled house has R-42 ceilings, R-21 underfloor, R-21 walls … all over State standards. New dbl. pane windows, new 97% efficient furnace, and 95% efficient tankless WH. All new EnergyStar appliances.

      Then : Location, Location, Location
      Now : Insulation, Insulation, Insulation

      Then : Drapes, 8 ft. ceilings, wall to wall carpeting, electric block heaters.
      Now : Double glazing, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, electric cars.

  7. Getting the results of Policies they voted for no…..will it be Red Pill time in Kalifornia..??

    Ha ha ha….not Flippin likely right.?

    1. Not openly. Anyone with a job with an employer cannot EVER express conservative TRUTHS out loud, or they could become rapidly unemployed. Yes, the environment is THAT chilling here in CA.

      However. Economics is reality. Economics aren’t fake. You can’t run or hide from economic reality. You can’t apply wokisms to economics and make it go away. So yes … silently, and quietly millions of leftist loons in CA will WAKE UP to the economic punishment they’ve voted for. But I also know a lot of these people … and if they had the ability … they’ve already fled. I personally know left-leaning Silicon Valley workers who have fled to Georgia where they work remotely from their San Francisco office … and another who fled to the tax-free Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

  8. I truly wonder if these people (illustrated in that Twitter(?) exchange) didn’t think their electricity bill would go up?

    1. PG&E was given TWO 22% rate increases last year … and they’re asking for another 8% this year (so far). People just hear that PG&E is building some new “green” something, and that they’re undergrounding cables for fire safety … and they say WOW maaaaan … that’s so kewl.

  9. Electric heating and 2 Teslas…

    …in a state where wildfires and earthquakes have taken down the power grid repeatedly in the last few years.

    You can’t fix stupid.

    1. Beyond being unable to fix stupid. They need to die because of their stupidity but no one else should.

    1. As an aside … gasoline in my upper, upper, middle class town is still just under $5.00/gal. Yet two cities over … in Concord, CA … which has become Guatemala de Norte’ … at the poor peoples COSTCO … I bought gas for $3.25/gal. Yes, there is a UUuge price differential for products based on zip code. I will continue to buy my gasoline in Guatemala de Norte’. Sadly, PG&E charges the same rates everywhere … the poor people get State vouchers to pay … I don’t.

      1. We are better off than most I suspect. We can endure a lot of financial pain. The schadenfreude is expensive here in California, but it is delicious.

    1. Yes … but just think of all the “green virtue” everyone feels? They’ve all “saved” Gaia!

      1. Yes, I “saved” Gaia…in the form of a dead alder, which I cut down in my backyard last August, for my fireplace this winter.
        So instead of turning up the thermostat, we tossed some logs on to the fire, as it is currently a toasty -10 C outside! 🙂

        Cheers

        Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

        1st St Nicolaas Army
        Army Group “True North”

        1. Here in the SF Bay Area … we’re having a week of “No Burn Days” … where your neighbors will turn you in to the Air Resources Board … and they’ll FINE you – heavily … for using your (now illegal) wood burning fireplace

          1. My condolences on having to suffer the “fireplace Nazis”!

            Where staying warm is now a CRIME!

            Cheers

            Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

            1st St Nicolaas Army
            Army Group “True North”

  13. I see two used Teslas for sale in 2023.

    People sell useless items when they can’t afford to feed their families.

  14. Rod Sterling would open with something like this :

    “ imagine if you will, a society where basic improvements for living are intensionally and willingly removed based on an airborne gas which is an essential element for all life itself “

    “ tonight’s episode is entitled: The second dark ages “

    1. The episode will feature a furry beast walking the wing of the airliner (representing our State) pulling parts off the wing … and a crazed William Shatner being hauled off in a straitjacket for SEEING what is happening to our State … that MONSTERS are ripping it apart

      :/

  16. Millions of dead people.
    Same as it ever was.
    Its a game as old as time, and to think that we have outgrown it is pure folly.
    On the bright side, only the west think they have outgrown human nature and replaced it with a propaganda-driven vision of idiocy.
    Putin is the last leader of the Enlightenment, who says “kill all you like, just not MY people.” and is willing to commit forces to that end.
    Even Trump or Mad Max are not so bold.
    Here in Canada, 30%+ would still vote for the Turd, even as he has the state kill children and teens.
    Its over for us, bring on the SMOD, or perhaps Putin could help us out.

    1. Yep – same here, one solid, newly purchased last year, Pacific Energy is keeping us toasty warm so far. Wood went up in price, but we’ll use up next year/fall any that we don’t use this winter. Have a few acres of hardwood out back, should they ban the retail sales of that or interfere too much.

  18. I built an energy efficient, relatively open floor plan, large house a decade ago. Used spray foam everywhere. I heat with a highly efficient wood stove and well-seasoned hardwoods, all personally harvested off my property (storm damage and natural loss of trees normally covers our annual wood requirements). The felling, bucking, splitting, stacking, and movement of the wood we burn keeps me active and healthy. After the capital investment in a saw and splitter, my operating expenses are about $20 to $40 for a full cord of wood and I burn 4 cords or so a year. Added solar panels this year to give us a fall back for the house; just enough for refrigeration, some lights, some entertainment. My power bill last month was $108.43; this month, $107.37. The highest bill in the summer is $225 or so.

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