Can California manage the passage to the future without carbon?

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In recent years, it has become painfully obvious that in California, California’s officialness lacks the ability to plan and implement major projects.

While the examples abound, the state WOEBEGONE Bullet Train ProjectHis excruciating efforts for Apply information technology Both financial and managerial A collapse of the unemployment program are among the most relevant.

Given this regretting record, why should we believe that the state’s plans to fully review the California economy by eliminating the energy of hydrocarbons, will it be more successful?

Over the next 20 years, California wants to replace nearly 30 million cars with gasoline and diesel and light trucks with those using batteries or hydrogen. At the same time, it is assumed that California is stopped by the production of natural gas electricity and increases power to recharge many millions of car batteries and service houses and commercial buildings that will no longer use gas.

Pray on the path to California without carbon are beginning to appear and the state is already lagging.

One of the biggest elements of the transition is the decree of governor Gavin Newsom, that by 2035, all cars sold in California must be zero-emissions or ZEVS for a short time, with an intermediate target of 35% this year.

It doesn’t happen.

Although there was a leap in ZEV’s purchases in the earlier years, they were about 25%, many of the expectations in 2025 and show no signs of increase. The price of vehicles powered by the battery in an inflationary era, fears of mileage restrictions and the shortage of functioning recharging stations are among the reasons for the sales plateau.

California cannot force users to buy ZEVS. His decrees are aimed at manufacturers, including fines for not responding to sales quotas. Brian Massa, President of the California Association of Car Merchants, said in a statement: “It’s time to admit that the state has hit a wall against the background of a lack of confidence in ZEV’s adoption, as well as throughout the country, a shortage of EV charging stations.”

Dealers and their allies released a poll Indicating that most Californians are dissatisfied with the interruption of sales of oil operating in 2035.

Other aspects of carbon -free conversion in California are also lagging. Dissitt fears forced Newsom and other government officials to slow down the phase of gas power plants in southern California and insist that the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Cangers near San Louis Obip remain in operation indefinitelySeparation of plans for removal.

Implicitly state efforts to eliminate the Petrofuel will require the possible closure of refineries in California, but it also has to maintain supply of gasoline and diesel fuel until the transformation is completed, which is a complicated act of balancing.

Two refineries have already been closed, raising the ghost of fuel shortages, which will lead to gas prices in California, already among the highest in the country, up.

Valerro is the most none that has announced exclusionобявявайки своето “настоящото намерение да празни, преструктурира или преустанови рафинирането на операции” в своята рафинерия в Бенисия до края на април 2026 г. Съобщението последва решението от миналата година от Филипс 66 да затвори рефинерията си в Южна Калифорния, два дни след като Newsom подписа законопроект, изискващ рефидери, за да поддържа минимално подаване на бензин.

California is an oil island of fuel, missing pipelines that could bring supplies from other states. In fact, motorists in Nevada and Arizona depend on California for their fuel. If the refineries continue to close, California may be forced to bring fuel from other countries through a tanker or to acquire internal refineries through purchase or seizure and manage them during the transition.

Asked about Valerro’s announcement, Newsom replied that the state would turn to “any anxiety that can be created or any interruptions in the market that can be created by this message.”

This is not soothing given the subtle paper records of the state for successful management of major projects and major emergencies.

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