Gav has his eyes on Washington D.C. while California crumbles.
According to a report from Fox News, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s viability as a presidential candidate is taking a significant hit in the wake of the Golden State’s energy crisis.
“Over the last week, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the state’s electric grid operator, has warned that high demand would significantly strain utility providers’ ability to supply consumers electricity amid a record heat wave. CAISO issued an ‘energy emergency alert 3,’ its highest alert level, on Tuesday evening, saying residents should maximize conservation and expect rotating outages, and a flex alert for the eighth consecutive day Wednesday evening,” Fox reports.
“You can thank the governor for giving all Americans a view of their quote-unquote clean energy future,” Will Swaim, the president of the California Policy Center, told Fox News Digital. “He has been the absolute pinnacle of environmentalist policy.”
“Nobody ever thought America would become a third-world country,” he continued. “California is testing that principle right now in real-time.”
Newsom and the Golden State are leading the charge on the Biden Administration’s green energy push, with plans to end the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035 and achieve statewide carbon neutrality by 2045.
But those plans may not be realistic.
“One issue here is supply and demand,” Bill Whalen, a distinguished policy fellow at the California-based Hoover Institution, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “The second issue here is California’s insistence upon moving away from fossil fuels to renewables [solar and wind].”
“The fact is renewables can’t carry the load,” he added.
“We might at some point have emissions-free energy, but I don’t believe solar and wind have enough capacity to be able to provide it for all of California,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment.
“We are not on a path to transition to zero emissions anytime soon — certainly not in 2050,” she told Fox News Digital. “We just don’t have the physical capability of zero-emissions energy.”
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Newsom has insisted that he’s not planning a presidential run. But he’s also bought ads across the country and repeatedly attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is considered a 2024 GOP frontrunner — while running for re-election in California this year.
He has also contacted donors who bankrolled President Biden’s 2020 campaign, CNBC reported in July.
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“Very clearly, we’re in an energy crisis and one party rule here has brought us to this point,” Jessica Patterson, the chairwoman of the California Republican Party, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “California Democrats have super majorities in both the legislative houses and the governor spot for over a decade and they continue to attack energy.”
“I don’t think that these policies work in other parts of the country,” Patterson continued. “I think that would be the greatest gift to Republicans if Gavin Newsom was the Democratic candidate for president.”
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