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Facing “mega drought”? Drain reservoirs into the ocean. Stressed power grid? Ban gas, encourage electric, and bring no new generation online.

I don’t understand governance in this state.

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The reservoirs were drained from filling up too early. They left no room for shock if another storm hit and that’d be catastrophic.

The power grid is immediately stressed and the gas bans are years out. That doesn’t mean the day of the ban everyone suddenly has an electric car. Building capacity and maintaining what we have today in the grid is absolutely obtainable over a decade

I think people have largely become accustomed to seeing nothing being built or improved in California. Whole generation of people at this point.

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