Excerpt from address of Old King Coal to San Diego City Council, August 19, 2022: “Right now, California gets fully 37% of its electricity from natural gas, compared to just 34% from renewables and a measly 3% from coal. The Kingdom of Coal has always regarded this as a deeply unfortunate situation. We - and by ‘we,’ I very much mean the royal ‘we’ - could not be happier to hear that the City Council has pledged to eliminate nearly all natural gas by 2035 - not only in new construction, but in existing construction as well. That’s barely more than 10 years away, and unless there’s some secret plan to rebuild San Onofre, that’s going to mean lots and lots of electricity for heating and cooking in California homes will be produced by…you guessed it. Us. There’s not enough room the desert for all the solar panels you’d need to do without our lovely black gold. Fortunately, there just isn’t that much coal in California, so it will have to be burned elsewhere. You’ll get the nice clean electricity, and some poor schlep in Pennsylvania will get the particulates in the atmosphere. That’s why they call you the Golden State!”
Excerpt from address of Old King Coal to San Diego City Council, August 19, 2022: “Right now, California gets fully 37% of its electricity from natural gas, compared to just 34% from renewables and a measly 3% from coal. The Kingdom of Coal has always regarded this as a deeply unfortunate situation. We - and by ‘we,’ I very much mean the royal ‘we’ - could not be happier to hear that the City Council has pledged to eliminate nearly all natural gas by 2035 - not only in new construction, but in existing construction as well. That’s barely more than 10 years away, and unless there’s some secret plan to rebuild San Onofre, that’s going to mean lots and lots of electricity for heating and cooking in California homes will be produced by…you guessed it. Us. There’s not enough room the desert for all the solar panels you’d need to do without our lovely black gold. Fortunately, there just isn’t that much coal in California, so it will have to be burned elsewhere. You’ll get the nice clean electricity, and some poor schlep in Pennsylvania will get the particulates in the atmosphere. That’s why they call you the Golden State!”
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