California gubmint sez ... You can't buy a gas powered car ... also ... You can't plug in your electric car
🧠 These people are stupid!
And THAT is exactly the scheme.
California will suffer an energy shortage and “Flex Alerts” through Labor Day due to high temperatures, and residents will be asked to conserve electricity during afternoons and evenings, which means refraining from charging electric vehicles, among other uses.
You are missing a key and even more insidious part of this equation. They want it turned off from 4-9 when EVERYONE IS AT HOME, BUT NOONE IS AT SCHOOL/WORK.
The industrial call center or tech research building is using an impractically incalculable amount more juice then everyone at home, yet they dont want Google's spy bases turned down. (The argument "cooling 1000 sq ft is easier than cooling 10 100 sq feet" doesnt hold water when you add in things like servers and data centers, vending machines, the countless thousands of computers, microphones, and screens, the fact that windowed walls allow in much more heat than solid walls, the sheer amount of wall to wall lighting and outlets)
Its about devaluing your life, you cant accidentally hear wrongthink if you cant turn on your TV or computer. Your teenage son cant run across Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro, let alone the truly based, if his brain is too hot to function and he is cut off except for his government mandated indoctrination.