My latest column for the L.A. Times…hope you’ll read and let me know what you think. Here’s an excerpt:
>To persuade voters to send him back to the White House, the former president offered a series of lies and exaggerations on clean energy. Trump suggested President Biden has adopted an “electric vehicle mandate” and “blocked oil and gas leasing in America.” (Biden has proposed rules that could require two-thirds of new cars to be electric by 2032, and has continued leasing public lands for fossil fuel drilling despite campaigning on a promise to stop.) He claimed Biden is pushing “suicide power-plant regulations that will shut down every oil- and gas- and coal-fired power plant in America,” which is also far from the truth.
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>Of particular relevance to California, Trump told an enthusiastic crowd that the Golden State “had blackouts all over the place this summer” because we didn’t have enough electricity to keep our air conditioners running in the sweltering heat.
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>“The whole thing is crazy — let’s go all electric, but we don’t have enough electric,” Trump said.
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>As with all the best lies, this one is based on a kernel of truth. Three years ago, small portions of the state experienced brief rolling blackouts when its biggest electric companies ran short on power over two summer evenings. There have been some close calls since then. And going forward, figuring out how to keep the lights on during heat waves worsened by fossil fuel combustion — especially after sundown, when solar panels stop generating — is a challenge policymakers are still working to solve.
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>But California experienced no blackouts caused by electricity shortages this summer. None. Not even during a solar eclipse.
Trump is lying again. About what is not important.
Not much that comes out of that mouth isn’t total shit.
I would prefer we don’t give this douche canoe free press unless it really matters
Y’all are going to get the orange asshole as president again, aren’t you?
It would be more surprising if he told the truth.
If the orange fascist says anything it’s
1. A lie
2. Meaningless made up nonsense.
What do you mean, again? Everything this asshat says is a lie. Only those brainless MAGA supporters believe him now. Still looking forward to seeing his eventual prison mugshot.
Sammy, this man is a dictator in waiting, bent on turning the country into a Nazi ethno-state. You do us no favors with a lightweight article normalizing him as a mere lying politician.
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My latest column for the L.A. Times…hope you’ll read and let me know what you think. Here’s an excerpt:
>To persuade voters to send him back to the White House, the former president offered a series of lies and exaggerations on clean energy. Trump suggested President Biden has adopted an “electric vehicle mandate” and “blocked oil and gas leasing in America.” (Biden has proposed rules that could require two-thirds of new cars to be electric by 2032, and has continued leasing public lands for fossil fuel drilling despite campaigning on a promise to stop.) He claimed Biden is pushing “suicide power-plant regulations that will shut down every oil- and gas- and coal-fired power plant in America,” which is also far from the truth.
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>Of particular relevance to California, Trump told an enthusiastic crowd that the Golden State “had blackouts all over the place this summer” because we didn’t have enough electricity to keep our air conditioners running in the sweltering heat.
>
>“The whole thing is crazy — let’s go all electric, but we don’t have enough electric,” Trump said.
>
>As with all the best lies, this one is based on a kernel of truth. Three years ago, small portions of the state experienced brief rolling blackouts when its biggest electric companies ran short on power over two summer evenings. There have been some close calls since then. And going forward, figuring out how to keep the lights on during heat waves worsened by fossil fuel combustion — especially after sundown, when solar panels stop generating — is a challenge policymakers are still working to solve.
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>But California experienced no blackouts caused by electricity shortages this summer. None. Not even during a solar eclipse.
Trump is lying again. About what is not important.
Not much that comes out of that mouth isn’t total shit.
I would prefer we don’t give this douche canoe free press unless it really matters
Y’all are going to get the orange asshole as president again, aren’t you?
It would be more surprising if he told the truth.
If the orange fascist says anything it’s
1. A lie
2. Meaningless made up nonsense.
What do you mean, again? Everything this asshat says is a lie. Only those brainless MAGA supporters believe him now. Still looking forward to seeing his eventual prison mugshot.
Sammy, this man is a dictator in waiting, bent on turning the country into a Nazi ethno-state. You do us no favors with a lightweight article normalizing him as a mere lying politician.
He wants the world to end with him.