Two days before New Year’s, I told you all about how Southern California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), encompassing Los Angeles and parts of surrounding counties, had decided to approve the accelerated adoption of a rule to ban natural gas boilers in new construction from 2026 forward. Existing facilities would have until 2033 to switch over to electric.
Going forward from next year, everything would be electric in a state that can’t keep the lights on as it is, and it’s hella expensive for the privilege as it is.
California is being driven off an energy cliff in fits and spurts by its slavish devotion to chasing out the climate change demons in a frantic effort to restore balance, enacting draconian measure after measure to the untameable forces of nature, regardless of the impact on the human inhabitants of the state.
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