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<\/p>\nRUSH: California is going through a heatwave. Now, a heatwave in California, I thought, man it must be really scorching out. It\u2019s 93 degrees. It\u2019s 93 degrees and they have to have rolling blackouts to keep the grid from crashing because they can\u2019t handle the load? 93 degrees. Let me tell you something, folks. We here in South Florida, this is an everyday occurrence. The feel-like temperature right here is 109 degrees. The humidity is 72%.<\/p>\n
So whatever the temperature is out there you add the humidity, we got a feel-like temp of 109. We never have rolling blackouts. We never have blackouts period, here. The grid can handle it because everybody\u2019s prepared. This is a tropical climate. We love it. We absolutely love it. So I was expecting California, Los Angeles, we\u2019re literally talking about mostly Los Angeles, I was thinking that they must be 110 degrees out there, \u2019cause I know in Death Valley, which is a desert, it\u2019s 130.<\/p>\n
Oh, and speaking of that, if you\u2019ve paid any attention, it\u2019s not a record. If you\u2019ll notice in all the news stories about the 130 degree high temperature in Death Valley, why, we haven\u2019t seen this temperature in 70 years. What does that mean? It means 70 years ago it was as hot as it is now. That means it isn\u2019t anything new. It means it isn\u2019t climate change, it isn\u2019t this or that. The record is older than today. So it is a nonstory, what the temperature is in Death Valley, it\u2019s a desert.<\/p>\n
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But Los Angeles, let me give you some numbers here. “The outages, which were expected to hit as soon as 4 p.m. in California -” this is yesterday “– would mark the third time in four days that the state\u2019s utilities deliberately cut power to protect a grid that\u2019s been pushed to the brink of failure as people blast their air conditioners and fans to keep cool.”<\/p>\n
A fan is not gonna put any load — air-conditioning does, but fans, they\u2019re not gonna affect anything. “The state is facing an electricity shortfall of about 4.4 gigawatts, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom. That\u2019s the equivalent of about four nuclear power plants.” And the governor said this, “Let me just make this crystal clear: We failed to predict and plan these shortages — and that\u2019s simply unacceptable.”<\/p>\n
Hang on, now. Hang on. “Rarely if ever have 3.3 million homes and businesses across California, or roughly 10 million people based on the average size of a household, been affected by a planned shutdown of this kind.” Here\u2019s why. “Part of the problem is California\u2019s rapid shift away from natural gas. About 9 gigawatts of gas generation, enough to power 6.8 million homes, have been retired over the past five years.”<\/p>\n
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Now, remember, up here earlier they\u2019re facing an electricity shortfall of 4.4 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of about four nuclear power plants. Part of the problem, California has shifted away from natural gas. Nine gigawatts of natural gas generation has been thrown away. It has been retired over the past five years in order that California can run renewable and green energy. In other words, they got rid of fossil fuel, natural gas, which is not dirty. Natural gas is not a pollutant. And they threw it away. They made it illegal, and they replaced it with solar.<\/p>\n
Guess what? Solar provides nothing starting an hour, hour and a half before sundown and throughout the rest of the night, all of those solar panels are freaking worthless. These blackouts are entirely man-made. They are not the result of exorbitantly high weather. They are the result of a bunch of fruitcake nuts believing in climate change getting rid of nine gigawatts of natural gas power generation and replacing that nine gigawatts with a totally insufficient number of gigawatts generated by solar and wind in order to save the planet, in order to protect the planet. If I lived out there, I would be outraged. I would have known this was coming.<\/p>\n
“According to the National Weather Service, Los Angeles International Airport,” where nobody lives, except maybe for the homeless camping out in the wheel wells of the nearest 747, “they hit a daily high of 93 degrees, breaking the previous high on the date of 85 set in 1994.” It\u2019s 93 degrees and 10 million people are suffering from rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n
Ladies and gentlemen (especially those of you in California), do you realize how you have been bamboozled here? Why was all this solar and wind built? It wasn\u2019t for power generation. It was to make the people that did it rich — and do you know who most of them are? Do you know who\u2019s really, really heavily invested in solar and wind? Try the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n
You Democrats, you haven\u2019t the slightest idea. The people who have gotten filthy rich off of this renewal switch largely are conservative Republican investors. Now in California, you have literally thrown away — you have manually reduced — your own ability to produce nine gigawatts of power by way of getting rid of natural gas.<\/p>\n
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state had to ‘sober up\u2019 about the fact that renewable energy sources had failed to provide enough power for the state at peak demand, and needed ‘backup\u2019 and ‘insurance\u2019 from other sources,” which means even though they\u2019re buying power from other sources, they still are having to shut down the grid.<\/p>\n “Newsom addressed journalists and the public in the midst of ongoing electricity blackouts that began on Friday … One reason the state lacked power, officials admitted, was its over-reliance on ‘renewables\u2019…” What do you mean, “overreliance on renewables”? Renewables can\u2019t come close to replacing fossil fuels. Renewables aren\u2019t there yet! They\u2019re never gonna be there.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason why fossil fuels are used. The free flow of oil at market prices is the fuel. It\u2019s the blood source of economics. It\u2019s what keeps a country going. It\u2019s what maintains a country\u2019s superpower status. The reason it\u2019s used is because it works, not because there\u2019s some evil mastermind that wants to destroy the planet. It\u2019s because it works!<\/p>\n And the minute humanity and ingenuity come up with something better and more efficient, we\u2019ll switch to it. The climate change people want you to believe that we\u2019re already there. We\u2019ve got everything we need to go renewable and clean and all this. We\u2019re not. We\u2019re nowhere near. And here\u2019s California… Can you imagine how bad this would be if California wasn\u2019t shut down, locked down, if they were still working?<\/p>\n (Snort!)<\/p>\n I saw this yesterday, and I about flipped a gourd because this is so predictable, and they\u2019ve brought it on themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I saw this yesterday, and I about flipped a gourd because this is so predictable, and they've brought it on themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":360734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/APP-BREITBART-TEARAWAY-081820-2.jpg\")
<\/a>There\u2019s no way you can replace it with solar or wind, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re having to manually shut down neighborhoods and they\u2019re rolling it out so that not the same neighborhood is affected every day. It is incompetence like you haven\u2019t seen it. It is incompetence squared and on parade. “California Gov. Gavin Newsom: Time to ‘Sober Up\u2019 About Green Energy\u2019s Flaws.” This is from Breitbart. <\/a><\/p>\n