Bonkers! Berkeley, California bans natural gas in new homes

Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago to News
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This battiness is all due to climate panic.

“There are no words adequate to describe the degree of craziness. Suffice it to say it measures the equivalent of 10 on the Richter scale for political lunacy, even for Berkeley, the most radical city in the most radical of these 50 states. Berkeley, California has always stood out as the vanguard of wackiness but now it has descended down to the ninth level and made a suicidal energy pact with itself. It has banned natural gas in new buildings and hired a $271,000 apparatchik to make sure the trigger is pulled, much like the guards Jim Jones ordered to make sure the folks at Jonestown drank the poison.”

https://naturalgasnow.org/berkeley-go...


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  • Posted by chad 4 years, 9 months ago
    I have a house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms and there is only me, they need to make it against the law to live alone, send some of the illegal immigrants my way.
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  • Posted by 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is why they have the utopian dream of having “do no evil” artificial intelligence running the government.
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  • Posted by 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And 2/3th of the extra electricity needed will generated using coal and natural gas.
    It’s things like this that clearly show that their dictates are not about anything but power to control others.
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  • Posted by NealS 4 years, 10 months ago
    If this makes any sense whatsoever, then California will become the first state to ban trucks and automobiles. I can see it coming, rapid transit everywhere. Opps, that's right they even crash them occasionally. I thank God I got out of there many years ago, but fear some of it lunacy has been spreading across the borders.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 4 years, 10 months ago
    Genius! /s/

    Use electricity for heating, cooking and hot water. It is about 40% efficient to use electricity, and well over 90% efficient (up to 98%) to use gas.

    The thing they ban is over two to one better for the objective they seek. Idiocrysy! This should make every single news outlet to define stupid.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I guess socialism continually fails because the elite doesnt have enough control over thepopulace, and its the populace that makes it fail.
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  • Posted by 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    “Real” socialism is applied socialism that has not failed yet. Like what was talked about in Venezuela, many years ago, before it failed.

    But more and more they are feeling that “real” socialism will only work after they conquer the world.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Somehow they never really mention what "real" socialism is, although I can imagine is some version of "we own you- dont move a muscle UNTIL we give you permission"
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I guess our problem is that we give these idiots the time of day, and that some uneducated people actually listen to them., Doesnt speak well for the future of the USA
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They wouldn't last 6 months. She probably fled Queens last night when the power failed.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Venezuela, here we come. We should somehow get AOC and bernie sanders to go live in venezuela for 6 months and see what they propose then.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Try using a pellet stove for heat. My house is "all electric", but its very expensive.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree about the lack of need for a/c. I lived there for many years, and it gets quite hot in the summer. Plus all you have to do is go 50 miles east of LA and its unbearably hot in the summer and dips to the 20's even at night in the winter.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    hmm. logic? The leftists work on emotion, NOT logic. Somehow its more emotionally satisfying to have people revert to more expensive electricity.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 10 months ago
    I wonder if pellet stoves are allowed still? They burn compressed wood pellets you get in like 50 lb bags. Thats probably next, leaving only electricity to heat homes. Of course, how does electricity get made?
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 4 years, 10 months ago
    Good............. they'll have to burn more Wyoming coal for electricity............
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  • Posted by 4 years, 10 months ago
    The auth-left in Berkeley is in a constant panic and won’t let rational people using the free market and the technology it derives to voluntarily solve energy problems, so people are forced to suffer.
    Unfortunately this often spreads.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The reason my house is all electric is because it was built in the '60s and the owner had experienced a fire in another home and was very paranoid about gas lines in the house. I'm not but it would be an enormous task and expensive to install gas lines.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 4 years, 10 months ago
    Well, there was a push for the "all-electric" house in the 1960''s -- of course then we were going to have nuclear power that made electricity 'too cheap to meter'.

    We still could if we put effort into Thorium development and stopped considering nuclear energy evil.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 4 years, 10 months ago
    This goes hand in hand with the state legislature decreeing that any new homes must incorporate solar power arrays. For the Los Angeles area, all of this is somewhat trivial, as heating and air conditioning are rarely needed in that always temperate climate. For northern California, it only creates an impossible burden for anyone with a less than quarter million dollar annual income who wants to own a single family home.
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