Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick
California residents are stuck in an energy hell of their own making.
The price of gasoline in the Golden State serves as a daily reminder of this. The average cost for a gallon is $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. And, right behind that ugly stat is the monthly power bill, where Californians pay the highest per kilowatt hour in the continental U.S.
If you’d like to dig deeper into how California stepped into this mess, take a look at this piece published yesterday in the L.A. Times by Joel Kotkin, the presidential fellow for urban futures at Chapman University.
It paints a rather bleak picture for a state that suffers the consequences of an energy policy that exclusively favors green energy over all else.
Is there a way out?
Yes.
Californians ought to properly re-label nuke-generated power as “green energy”and start building the newer reactors all over the place. They are smaller, cleaner, cheaper, safer, and more reliable.
Here’s a piece that will give you an idea of the possibilities.
These new nuke plants are like choosing between a huge coach bus that moves 70 people at a time versus several passenger vans that each move 15 people at a time. The vans are easier to build, and you can deploy them more quickly; you can run the number of vans you need for the number of people you have more easily.
So, go nuclear, California, and lead the nation in real “green” energy production.
Who’s with me?
(You can read the rest of this column and more columns from Sherman Frederick at shermanfrederick.substack.com.)
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