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California’s Utopian Renewable Energy Mandates Already Threatening Power Shortages and Higher Utility Bills

By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, July 08 2009

If it’s true that “as California goes, so goes the nation,” Americans should be very afraid. While Al Gore ridiculously compares his global warming crusade to the battle against Nazism and Congress hastily debates a behemoth 1,200-page climate change bill, recent news from the test laboratory known as the state of California presages troublesome times ahead for American power consumers. As a consequence of foolish environmental regulations, California officials express increasing alarm that the state’s renewable energy mandates threaten widespread power shortages…

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