Thanks Andy for highlighting why each of us must contribute our time, money and words to elect Candidate Bob Smith to replace incompetent DEM puppet Salud. We must hold ourselves accountable for the outcomes of the upcoming three elections in November 2025 & 2026, plus the June ‘26 primary. Bob Smith is exceptional! Common sense, informed leaders are needed.
Return our County’s high paying oil and gas jobs so locals don’t need to commute to Louisiana for jobs to keep their homes and families here. Save our farmland, California’s spectacular beauty.
Did you see that small homes are being built from recycled wind turbine parts? Dismantle all of them. BTW: Where are the self-identified environmentalists? Presumably at an “anti-this or that rally”. Ignorance is dangerous; stupidity even worse.
Two challenges: (1) Defeat the Democrat Mean Machine first; then (2) elect highly competent and highly qualified Rep. Bob Smith.
Be alert to every political dirty trick the Democrat Mean Machine will play, and be ready for them.
1. Learn their emotional buzz words used to hook voters and distort real issues (families and jobs, "working families" (aka union jobs).... will be big).
2. Be ready for their dismissive nickname they will instantly attach to any opposition and will use early and often, to capture low-information voters who will then not later budge. (The Trumpy candidate; too conservative for the South Coast....)
3. The local media megaphone is already in the Democrat Mean Machine hands. How does one overcome the major local media influencers?
4. How much campaign war chest will they try to dissipate with early ballot challenges, technical attacks, and expensive early misinformation campaigns well before one is able to get the real issues that matter out before the voters?
5. Never, never, never let Democrats put anyone on the defensive. Channel our inner Scott Jennings.
6. Learn to do the Kelly Ann Conway Pivot when faced with Democrat gotchas. Take the discussion where you want it to go; not there they try to make you take it. Smell out their tactics, before responding.
Absolutely agree — Bob Smith is exactly the kind of common-sense leader we need to replace Salud Carbajal.
Carbajal has proven himself nothing more than a rubber stamp for the green lobby, driving up energy costs, destroying farmland, and chasing away high-paying oil and gas jobs that once sustained our communities.
Bob Smith offers a real alternative: protecting local jobs, keeping families rooted here instead of forcing breadwinners to travel halfway across the country, and defending both our farmland and California’s natural beauty from reckless industrial “green” schemes.
As for the recycled wind turbine houses — that’s a perfect symbol of the madness we’re living under. Failed policies dressed up as “solutions.” Voters are ready for a course correction, and Bob Smith is the one to deliver it.
Andy is exactly right, and Carbajal’s claims fall apart under even the most basic scrutiny.
Congressman Carbajal wants us to believe that cutting subsidies for unreliable renewables will somehow raise our bills and destroy jobs. The facts say the opposite. California already has the second-highest electricity costs in the nation — and it’s not because of gas or nuclear. It’s because of endless mandates, subsidies, and sweetheart deals for wind, solar, and now massive battery farms. We generate so much excess solar at midday that the grid can’t handle it, forcing us to literally pay other states to take it. That’s not “grid reliability.” That’s grid destabilization.
On jobs, Carbajal conveniently ignores the reality that nearly all the critical raw materials and manufacturing for wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are controlled by China. If anything, cutting taxpayer handouts to these projects strengthens American security and reduces dependence on Beijing.
Then there’s Carbajal’s crown jewel: the Morro Bay offshore wind project. For that to move forward, Avila Beach and Port San Luis would have been transformed into an industrial hub resembling Long Beach — massive concrete piers, heavy cranes, and constant shipping traffic. That’s the price tag Carbajal won’t admit to his constituents. “Bye-bye Avila Beach” is right.
And the assault doesn’t stop at the coast. Locally, Santa Barbara County supervisors are pushing industrial-scale solar and battery energy storage systems onto prime agricultural land — the very farmland that for decades they promised to protect. California has already lost over a million acres of farmland, and solar sprawl threatens millions more nationwide. Even USDA has now stepped in to end subsidies that convert food-producing farms into taxpayer-funded solar fields.
Meanwhile, Californians are drowning in unpaid utility bills. The CPUC’s own numbers show more than 3 million customers in arrears with over $2 billion in unpaid debt. That is the real cost of “green” energy.
So yes, thank you Andy for exposing the truth. And thank you President Trump for ending the cycle of subsidies, mandates, and taxpayer-funded green boondoggles that are wrecking our coasts, hollowing out our farmland, and driving our utility bills sky-high. Carbajal’s talking points don’t just miss the mark — they confirm why California families are already suffering.
"Bye Bye Avila Beach" makes a good bumper sticker.
How many years and how many millions were required to clean-up Avila Beach from "oil contamination" a few decades ago? In order to return it to its pristine condition.
Now Democrats do this to it?
Recent trip to Portugal and saw nothing but massive windmills all over the country side. But was not over-production of Spain's "green energy" during a peak time, responsible for the major Iberian peninsula power outage - overloading the system shut it down, and there no back up power supply to cover this forced down time?
(Sketchy recollection here. But Sancho Panza and the Man from La Mancha would have a full time job if he were still tilting at windmills in this part of the world.)
Thank you Andy, for continuing to expose the green scam that has made energy production more expensive and less dependable. Our Congressman, Salud Carbajal has been an outspoken advocate of failing energy policy and has taken his marching orders not from his constituents, but from the Sierra Club, Surf Rider and the Environmental Defense Council. Carbajal and his band of green activists want to turn Morro Bay into an industrial port and cancel the tourism and commercial fishing industries which it now enjoys. Interesting how the Chumash Marine Sanctuary plays into this power grab of federal waters. Yes, this was slipped in the last days of the Biden administration. Wondering how the list of companies that stand to benefit from this have financially supported Carbajal and others? How is it handing over 4500 square miles of federal waters to a band of Native Americans which core business is gaming, benefits the American people? Something is really wrong here.
In the meantime, a publicly traded corporation, Sable Oil, which provides California with as much as 20% of our oil has been targeted with frivolous lawsuits in order to shut down production by operating their own repaired pipeline, along with hundreds of local jobs and loss of state royalties. And we wonder why our gas prices are the nation’s highest and tar continues to seep and spill on to our beaches!
A politician's primary responsibility is re election. Why they tend to tell their constituency what they think that they want to hear. Salud, who I actually like personally, is a pretty classic low information official. Well intentioned possibly. But woefully uneducated on systems architecture and management.
Cousteau said it well many years ago (Ocean Futures is actually headquartered in SB) :
"Forget the politicians — they all think short term…. But there is something I have found that works. Identify an issue with a campaign that has emotional appeal. Advocate a specific policy. Get letters, petitions, and faxes. With thousands of signatures, the politicians will join the parade — No — they will try to lead the parade.
I did this three times with success. To push for the Antarctic treaty; to end French nuclear testing in the Pacific; and to promote a new legal concept at the U.N., ‘The Rights of Future Generations.’ We must appeal to the public directly with a powerful message and tie it to a specific action or change in policy. I think this is the only way."
We can manage our resources with far greater efficiency than we are presently. Unfortunately we are in an era of incredibly pervasive deception.
Thanks for broaching the subject(s) Andy. It does matter.
I read this article titled "Saving Our Farms and Keeping Our Money from Salud Carbajal"
by Andy Caldwell who left a video of same to document the hypocrisy of SB and CALI.
Since I grew up on a farm I will comment and of course have a new supporting title.
"SB So-Called Leaders Don't Give A Damn about hard working Farmers" I guote from Mr. Caldwell "Tennessee has lost more than 1.2 million acres in the past 30 years and could lose 2 million by 2027. Nationally, solar installations on farmland have risen nearly 50% since 2012."
Has anyone driven by the HUGE now defunk Solor Farm Boone-Doggle on the way to Vegas?
"Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar DOE project as ‘financial boondoggle,’ ‘disaster’"
If you haven't figured it out folks it will not be from me Beatin The Cali Dead Horse here in
SB Current of all the Corruption in Santa Barbara and in CALI-Boone-Doggle-Green-New-Scam
Am I prophetic or what!!!! Yes I wrote that News Release Green-New-Scam-Fact-Sheet for the White House!!! BUT HEY WHITE HOUSE YA ALL LEFT OFF THE BOONE-DOGGLE!!!!
Solar, wind, what a bunch of crap. The Commie-Dems push it because the average dope on the street somehow thinks it's 'natural' and will keep voting for these morons. Nuclear is the way to go - a little breadbox produces more safe, dependable energy than all the windmills put together.
Even rabid leftist guru, film maker Michael Moore, learned all forms of "green energy" are very ungreen.
None of them are as clean as they claim to be, when their "greenness" is measured beginning to end. From production of their components to disposal of their used parts.
I'm very concerned about the Morro Bay Offshore Wind Project. It is gigantic, and it will forever change Morro Bay. According to AI the project is still on track. The only good news is that President Trump hates wind turbines.
Good Article, demonstrating the affects & cost of wind & solar farms on our environment, not to mention the low return on investment when compared to the cost & ROI for oil & natural gas…
Most concerning is the environmental poisoning of areas near these mega battery sites when they catch fire…why are we building toxic fire bombs in our living rooms?
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Death because of Bad Orangeman. Variations of this same theme will play out constantly until election day. But it is the exact same underlying framework. GOP means fear, uncertainty and death.
Listen to the final 2 minutes. Limon says that CA needs more representation in Congress. Jerry tries to catch her, and then she agrees more Democrats. Not good for someone that’s supposed to be representing everyone here. If you are not a Democrat, you are clearly not a Californian to Limon.
2 Senators and 83% of 52 House districts is apparently not enough Democrats to properly represent CA. I’m sure what she meant to say was Democrats need 218 across the U.S. so we can go back to weekly impeachments. But that’s not what she said…
Proving it is always never enough when Democrat make demands.
Nearly 40% voted for Trump, yet she wants virtually 100% Democrat representation from California in Congress. The lady clearly has a mean-spirited screw loose. But I repeat myself. (Gasp) She sounds like a fascist dictator.
Is the Morro Bay offshore wind farm one of these federally funded projects?
NYT reports: "The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power, the latest of the Trump administration’s escalating attacks against the wind industry."
Yes, and it would seem the left is “green” with envy. The Trump administration has made the US a juggernaut in energy policy, securing our border, exporting illegal immigrant criminals, taking on crime, promoting world peace and taking on nutty, woke, DEI policies. Here’s to the Golden Age.
How does one penetrate the local media Iron Dome, that keeps this message from reaching local voters?
1. Judicious use of California Globe comments and RedState JenniferOliver O'Connell's excellent columns highlighting California politics, can widen local issues reach and name recognition.
2. Getting past edhat "moderation" and embedded shout-downs is also a way to extend local reach. Good testing ground for early political smear warnings too.
3. SB Independent, the house organ for the Democrat party, carries the most political influence locally. How to tame that beast, and reach Marianne Partridge, Josh Molina, Jerry Roberts and Nick Welsh?
4. Bringing back two party debate to our local partisan offices, making the case why a new approach to long standing unresolved issues is the way to a better future for us all.
IDK, especially when you have the likes of lib cheerleaders Jerry Roberts, an Angry French Poodle and bird cage liner, Independent with the loudest megaphones!
We need to be ready to donate for serious ad purchases in the SB Independent. Meet them on their own turf. Learn what their policies are for political advertisements, Op-ed pieces and Letters to the editor.
Seriously, maybe Jim, Bonnie and others would entertain the idea of having a SB Current podcast to rival SB Newsfakers? Right in time for the midterms!
Good idea. Andy Caldwell interviews many SBCurrent writers on his Thursday radio show but we need more. Anyone interested in helping launch a sb current podcast please reach out fenkner@sbcurrent.com
Let's discuss Salad's bumper sticker bullet points - a classic fact-devoid bait and switch.
His snappy, visually appealing bullet points are pure nonsense. But they serve the real and intended message: Salud is good and Orangeman is bad. Repeat ad nauseam.
______Salud says Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will:
1. "Increases Americans energy costs":
Notice he makes a claim for *American* energy costs; side-stepping the already high energy costs in California, that are the direct result of his own punitive green energy policies. So glad you suddenly care about Americans, Salud. Try caring about your own constituents who are paying through their noses for energy costs in this state, while sitting on all resources needed to bring down energy costs.
2. "Kills energy and manufacturing jobs"
No more taxpayer Solyndra-type slush funds and other failed green energy subsidy boondoggles. That is what gets killed. Which in turn kills nothing other than more wastes of taxpayer dollars and Democrat vote-getting wealth transfers schemes. Tax dollar transfers create nothing - certainly not "jobs" nor manufacturing plants - the market creates those. Capitalism 101. Democrat threats - Socialism 101.
3. "Weakens grid reliability"
Grid reliability is non-existent when using only green energy sources, how much weaker can it get? Even Salud's hot air shuts down from time to time. Plus we plan for energy resilience by being open to multiple resources, not putting a dagger into the most obvious, reliable and readily available local sources.
So-called writer Andy Caldwell is a shill for the oil and gas industry which has polluted our planet and helped raise global temperatures over the decades. He is wrong-headed about the need for and use of sustainable sources of energy. His so-called facts are misleading and inaccurate. The Department of Energy estimates that 5.7 million acres would be needed for solar to account for 40% of U.S. electricity, which is less than 1% of America's total farmland.
In 2020, the land directly affected by solar farms was 424,000 acres out of nearly 900 million acres of farmland, which is less than 0.05%. Caldwell distorts figures to give a false impression. And why can’t solar equipment and batteries be made right here in the USA? There are many companies that already do it, and are profitable.
Drinking the green Kool Aid JC? Really, the taxpaying public was projected to spent $500 billion dollars on subsidies in just the next few years. How much more will it take, why can’t wind and solar survive without massive tax credits? Do you and your green
“warriors” really want the Gaviota coast to look like Palm Springs, destroying sea mammals and birds in the process?
The green scam has been outed, sorry, not drinking the kool aid. Drill baby, drill!
As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a marooon". Sorry to confuse you with the facts and I am also sorry that you are not good at math. Solar only produces 4 hours of electricity per day! Battery plants only store 4 hours worth of power per day. What are you going to do for power the rest of the day?
Andy, Fire yesterday on a battery storage facility in Parkfield. Exact same batteries as Goleta. It caused a 2 mile evacuation in a remote area. Would be interesting to see exactly how we evacuate 2 miles around the Goleta BESS facility which would encompass from
Elwood to the other side of the airport up to Cathedral
Oaks. Is there a plan in place for that level of evacuation onto 101 knowing we have a BESS facility that can catch fire and requires at least a 2 mile evacuation radius?
Tens of thousand of these things everywhere to fake a baseload…
What we want is a continuous heartbeat of baseload, which can only be done through Nuclear, Hydro, or Fossil Fuels, today. I’m clearly a nuclear fan.
Support that with renewables. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket and keep technology maturing. Unless we get to fusion - I believe fusion may be the exception to all the eggs in one basket, if we can reach it.
It’s all fake. We are making people believe battery storage can maintain a continuous load. Our baseload power is what we need to get through 24/7 continuous power. Renewables by definition are intermittent. Batteries facilities are on the order of 2-4 hours max. We currently have 2% of battery capacity to just get through a single night in CA. All of our baseload is being backed by Diablo Canyon and natural gas. At peak evening hours we are hitting 70% natural gas use. We would need to have battery technology that doesn’t exist today and tens of thousands of battery facilities all over, and you would still keep the natural gas lit as load management. It wouldn’t be awesome if we had a battery fire, and we expended our storage for the night, and some town froze to death overnight.
Anyone on here that’s following the 100% renewable nonsense is in fantasy land, literally. CA’s narrative is all fantasy nonsense.
CA is literally on the same path Germany went down. They are paying the highest energy costs in the EU, burning coal, and importing French nuclear now that their Russian Natural Gas is cutoff.
Plan ahead if one needs to evacuated, because we know the Gaviota rest stop will still be closed. The rest stop to no where - add that to the list of failed Newsom projects.
Thanks Andy for highlighting why each of us must contribute our time, money and words to elect Candidate Bob Smith to replace incompetent DEM puppet Salud. We must hold ourselves accountable for the outcomes of the upcoming three elections in November 2025 & 2026, plus the June ‘26 primary. Bob Smith is exceptional! Common sense, informed leaders are needed.
Return our County’s high paying oil and gas jobs so locals don’t need to commute to Louisiana for jobs to keep their homes and families here. Save our farmland, California’s spectacular beauty.
Did you see that small homes are being built from recycled wind turbine parts? Dismantle all of them. BTW: Where are the self-identified environmentalists? Presumably at an “anti-this or that rally”. Ignorance is dangerous; stupidity even worse.
Two challenges: (1) Defeat the Democrat Mean Machine first; then (2) elect highly competent and highly qualified Rep. Bob Smith.
Be alert to every political dirty trick the Democrat Mean Machine will play, and be ready for them.
1. Learn their emotional buzz words used to hook voters and distort real issues (families and jobs, "working families" (aka union jobs).... will be big).
2. Be ready for their dismissive nickname they will instantly attach to any opposition and will use early and often, to capture low-information voters who will then not later budge. (The Trumpy candidate; too conservative for the South Coast....)
3. The local media megaphone is already in the Democrat Mean Machine hands. How does one overcome the major local media influencers?
4. How much campaign war chest will they try to dissipate with early ballot challenges, technical attacks, and expensive early misinformation campaigns well before one is able to get the real issues that matter out before the voters?
5. Never, never, never let Democrats put anyone on the defensive. Channel our inner Scott Jennings.
6. Learn to do the Kelly Ann Conway Pivot when faced with Democrat gotchas. Take the discussion where you want it to go; not there they try to make you take it. Smell out their tactics, before responding.
Absolutely agree — Bob Smith is exactly the kind of common-sense leader we need to replace Salud Carbajal.
Carbajal has proven himself nothing more than a rubber stamp for the green lobby, driving up energy costs, destroying farmland, and chasing away high-paying oil and gas jobs that once sustained our communities.
Bob Smith offers a real alternative: protecting local jobs, keeping families rooted here instead of forcing breadwinners to travel halfway across the country, and defending both our farmland and California’s natural beauty from reckless industrial “green” schemes.
As for the recycled wind turbine houses — that’s a perfect symbol of the madness we’re living under. Failed policies dressed up as “solutions.” Voters are ready for a course correction, and Bob Smith is the one to deliver it.
Keep pointing the hypocrisies out, Andy. Your words of truth have an impact.
Andy is exactly right, and Carbajal’s claims fall apart under even the most basic scrutiny.
Congressman Carbajal wants us to believe that cutting subsidies for unreliable renewables will somehow raise our bills and destroy jobs. The facts say the opposite. California already has the second-highest electricity costs in the nation — and it’s not because of gas or nuclear. It’s because of endless mandates, subsidies, and sweetheart deals for wind, solar, and now massive battery farms. We generate so much excess solar at midday that the grid can’t handle it, forcing us to literally pay other states to take it. That’s not “grid reliability.” That’s grid destabilization.
On jobs, Carbajal conveniently ignores the reality that nearly all the critical raw materials and manufacturing for wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are controlled by China. If anything, cutting taxpayer handouts to these projects strengthens American security and reduces dependence on Beijing.
Then there’s Carbajal’s crown jewel: the Morro Bay offshore wind project. For that to move forward, Avila Beach and Port San Luis would have been transformed into an industrial hub resembling Long Beach — massive concrete piers, heavy cranes, and constant shipping traffic. That’s the price tag Carbajal won’t admit to his constituents. “Bye-bye Avila Beach” is right.
And the assault doesn’t stop at the coast. Locally, Santa Barbara County supervisors are pushing industrial-scale solar and battery energy storage systems onto prime agricultural land — the very farmland that for decades they promised to protect. California has already lost over a million acres of farmland, and solar sprawl threatens millions more nationwide. Even USDA has now stepped in to end subsidies that convert food-producing farms into taxpayer-funded solar fields.
Meanwhile, Californians are drowning in unpaid utility bills. The CPUC’s own numbers show more than 3 million customers in arrears with over $2 billion in unpaid debt. That is the real cost of “green” energy.
So yes, thank you Andy for exposing the truth. And thank you President Trump for ending the cycle of subsidies, mandates, and taxpayer-funded green boondoggles that are wrecking our coasts, hollowing out our farmland, and driving our utility bills sky-high. Carbajal’s talking points don’t just miss the mark — they confirm why California families are already suffering.
"Bye Bye Avila Beach" makes a good bumper sticker.
How many years and how many millions were required to clean-up Avila Beach from "oil contamination" a few decades ago? In order to return it to its pristine condition.
Now Democrats do this to it?
Recent trip to Portugal and saw nothing but massive windmills all over the country side. But was not over-production of Spain's "green energy" during a peak time, responsible for the major Iberian peninsula power outage - overloading the system shut it down, and there no back up power supply to cover this forced down time?
(Sketchy recollection here. But Sancho Panza and the Man from La Mancha would have a full time job if he were still tilting at windmills in this part of the world.)
Thank you Andy, for continuing to expose the green scam that has made energy production more expensive and less dependable. Our Congressman, Salud Carbajal has been an outspoken advocate of failing energy policy and has taken his marching orders not from his constituents, but from the Sierra Club, Surf Rider and the Environmental Defense Council. Carbajal and his band of green activists want to turn Morro Bay into an industrial port and cancel the tourism and commercial fishing industries which it now enjoys. Interesting how the Chumash Marine Sanctuary plays into this power grab of federal waters. Yes, this was slipped in the last days of the Biden administration. Wondering how the list of companies that stand to benefit from this have financially supported Carbajal and others? How is it handing over 4500 square miles of federal waters to a band of Native Americans which core business is gaming, benefits the American people? Something is really wrong here.
In the meantime, a publicly traded corporation, Sable Oil, which provides California with as much as 20% of our oil has been targeted with frivolous lawsuits in order to shut down production by operating their own repaired pipeline, along with hundreds of local jobs and loss of state royalties. And we wonder why our gas prices are the nation’s highest and tar continues to seep and spill on to our beaches!
https://chumashsanctuary.org/2024/04/23/joint-support-for-sanctuary-designation/
https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/
https://sablecaliforniaenergy.com/
A politician's primary responsibility is re election. Why they tend to tell their constituency what they think that they want to hear. Salud, who I actually like personally, is a pretty classic low information official. Well intentioned possibly. But woefully uneducated on systems architecture and management.
Cousteau said it well many years ago (Ocean Futures is actually headquartered in SB) :
"Forget the politicians — they all think short term…. But there is something I have found that works. Identify an issue with a campaign that has emotional appeal. Advocate a specific policy. Get letters, petitions, and faxes. With thousands of signatures, the politicians will join the parade — No — they will try to lead the parade.
I did this three times with success. To push for the Antarctic treaty; to end French nuclear testing in the Pacific; and to promote a new legal concept at the U.N., ‘The Rights of Future Generations.’ We must appeal to the public directly with a powerful message and tie it to a specific action or change in policy. I think this is the only way."
We can manage our resources with far greater efficiency than we are presently. Unfortunately we are in an era of incredibly pervasive deception.
Thanks for broaching the subject(s) Andy. It does matter.
A candidate's major job is to make the voter feel good when voting for them.
I read this article titled "Saving Our Farms and Keeping Our Money from Salud Carbajal"
by Andy Caldwell who left a video of same to document the hypocrisy of SB and CALI.
Since I grew up on a farm I will comment and of course have a new supporting title.
"SB So-Called Leaders Don't Give A Damn about hard working Farmers" I guote from Mr. Caldwell "Tennessee has lost more than 1.2 million acres in the past 30 years and could lose 2 million by 2027. Nationally, solar installations on farmland have risen nearly 50% since 2012."
Has anyone driven by the HUGE now defunk Solor Farm Boone-Doggle on the way to Vegas?
https://nypost.com/2025/02/09/business/california-ivanpah-solar-power-facility-created-by-obama-blasted-as-disaster/
"Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar DOE project as ‘financial boondoggle,’ ‘disaster’"
If you haven't figured it out folks it will not be from me Beatin The Cali Dead Horse here in
SB Current of all the Corruption in Santa Barbara and in CALI-Boone-Doggle-Green-New-Scam
Am I prophetic or what!!!! Yes I wrote that News Release Green-New-Scam-Fact-Sheet for the White House!!! BUT HEY WHITE HOUSE YA ALL LEFT OFF THE BOONE-DOGGLE!!!!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ending-the-Green-New-Scam-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
DOD BOONE-DOGGLES PETE HEGSETH AT 1:19 > DOGE-Y > SEN DURBIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipznVhGkW8E&ab_channel=C-SPAN
Solar, wind, what a bunch of crap. The Commie-Dems push it because the average dope on the street somehow thinks it's 'natural' and will keep voting for these morons. Nuclear is the way to go - a little breadbox produces more safe, dependable energy than all the windmills put together.
Even rabid leftist guru, film maker Michael Moore, learned all forms of "green energy" are very ungreen.
None of them are as clean as they claim to be, when their "greenness" is measured beginning to end. From production of their components to disposal of their used parts.
I'm very concerned about the Morro Bay Offshore Wind Project. It is gigantic, and it will forever change Morro Bay. According to AI the project is still on track. The only good news is that President Trump hates wind turbines.
An executive order paused it right now. The good thing is the federal government has control of everything in the EEZ (3-200NM offshore).
If elected, I will ensure the Morro Bay FLOW goes away for good and we pivot the funds to more responsible energy endeavors here.
Good Article, demonstrating the affects & cost of wind & solar farms on our environment, not to mention the low return on investment when compared to the cost & ROI for oil & natural gas…
Most concerning is the environmental poisoning of areas near these mega battery sites when they catch fire…why are we building toxic fire bombs in our living rooms?
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/northern-california-lithium-battery-fire-moss-landing-monterey-county/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/17/massive-fire-engulfs-moss-landing-battery-plant-triggers-evacuations/
Especially galling is that free energy is available directly from the omni-present aether that surrounds US, but held back (hidden) by the evil Cabal…
https://www.theearthandi.org/post/zero-point-energy-the-sea-of-energy-around-us
https://atlantahypnotherapyclinic.com/unraveling-the-aether-nikola-teslas-exploration-and-utilization/
PS…hard to wait for all of these criminals wearing suits to be rolled up…even Gavin Newsom knows that Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming…
https://x.com/govpressoffice/status/1961985956707545255?s=61
When Democrats tell us who they are, believe them. Monique Limon lays out the early Democrat agenda, with all the hysteria bells and flourishes: https://www.edhat.com/news/monique-makes-the-case-for-prop-50-in-nov-4-special-election-trump-is-trying-to-rig-the-mid-terms/
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Death because of Bad Orangeman. Variations of this same theme will play out constantly until election day. But it is the exact same underlying framework. GOP means fear, uncertainty and death.
https://www.santabarbaranewsmakers.com/p/watch-monique-makes-the-case-for?r=57d2ew&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Listen to the final 2 minutes. Limon says that CA needs more representation in Congress. Jerry tries to catch her, and then she agrees more Democrats. Not good for someone that’s supposed to be representing everyone here. If you are not a Democrat, you are clearly not a Californian to Limon.
2 Senators and 83% of 52 House districts is apparently not enough Democrats to properly represent CA. I’m sure what she meant to say was Democrats need 218 across the U.S. so we can go back to weekly impeachments. But that’s not what she said…
Proving it is always never enough when Democrat make demands.
Nearly 40% voted for Trump, yet she wants virtually 100% Democrat representation from California in Congress. The lady clearly has a mean-spirited screw loose. But I repeat myself. (Gasp) She sounds like a fascist dictator.
Is the Morro Bay offshore wind farm one of these federally funded projects?
NYT reports: "The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power, the latest of the Trump administration’s escalating attacks against the wind industry."
Green train to nowhere....
Green power to nowhere....
I sense a pattern. It's not easy being green.
Yes, and it would seem the left is “green” with envy. The Trump administration has made the US a juggernaut in energy policy, securing our border, exporting illegal immigrant criminals, taking on crime, promoting world peace and taking on nutty, woke, DEI policies. Here’s to the Golden Age.
How does one penetrate the local media Iron Dome, that keeps this message from reaching local voters?
1. Judicious use of California Globe comments and RedState JenniferOliver O'Connell's excellent columns highlighting California politics, can widen local issues reach and name recognition.
2. Getting past edhat "moderation" and embedded shout-downs is also a way to extend local reach. Good testing ground for early political smear warnings too.
3. SB Independent, the house organ for the Democrat party, carries the most political influence locally. How to tame that beast, and reach Marianne Partridge, Josh Molina, Jerry Roberts and Nick Welsh?
4. Bringing back two party debate to our local partisan offices, making the case why a new approach to long standing unresolved issues is the way to a better future for us all.
IDK, especially when you have the likes of lib cheerleaders Jerry Roberts, an Angry French Poodle and bird cage liner, Independent with the loudest megaphones!
We need to be ready to donate for serious ad purchases in the SB Independent. Meet them on their own turf. Learn what their policies are for political advertisements, Op-ed pieces and Letters to the editor.
Seriously, maybe Jim, Bonnie and others would entertain the idea of having a SB Current podcast to rival SB Newsfakers? Right in time for the midterms!
Good idea. Andy Caldwell interviews many SBCurrent writers on his Thursday radio show but we need more. Anyone interested in helping launch a sb current podcast please reach out fenkner@sbcurrent.com
Let's discuss Salad's bumper sticker bullet points - a classic fact-devoid bait and switch.
His snappy, visually appealing bullet points are pure nonsense. But they serve the real and intended message: Salud is good and Orangeman is bad. Repeat ad nauseam.
______Salud says Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will:
1. "Increases Americans energy costs":
Notice he makes a claim for *American* energy costs; side-stepping the already high energy costs in California, that are the direct result of his own punitive green energy policies. So glad you suddenly care about Americans, Salud. Try caring about your own constituents who are paying through their noses for energy costs in this state, while sitting on all resources needed to bring down energy costs.
2. "Kills energy and manufacturing jobs"
No more taxpayer Solyndra-type slush funds and other failed green energy subsidy boondoggles. That is what gets killed. Which in turn kills nothing other than more wastes of taxpayer dollars and Democrat vote-getting wealth transfers schemes. Tax dollar transfers create nothing - certainly not "jobs" nor manufacturing plants - the market creates those. Capitalism 101. Democrat threats - Socialism 101.
3. "Weakens grid reliability"
Grid reliability is non-existent when using only green energy sources, how much weaker can it get? Even Salud's hot air shuts down from time to time. Plus we plan for energy resilience by being open to multiple resources, not putting a dagger into the most obvious, reliable and readily available local sources.
So-called writer Andy Caldwell is a shill for the oil and gas industry which has polluted our planet and helped raise global temperatures over the decades. He is wrong-headed about the need for and use of sustainable sources of energy. His so-called facts are misleading and inaccurate. The Department of Energy estimates that 5.7 million acres would be needed for solar to account for 40% of U.S. electricity, which is less than 1% of America's total farmland.
In 2020, the land directly affected by solar farms was 424,000 acres out of nearly 900 million acres of farmland, which is less than 0.05%. Caldwell distorts figures to give a false impression. And why can’t solar equipment and batteries be made right here in the USA? There are many companies that already do it, and are profitable.
Nuclear power looks better all the time.
Drinking the green Kool Aid JC? Really, the taxpaying public was projected to spent $500 billion dollars on subsidies in just the next few years. How much more will it take, why can’t wind and solar survive without massive tax credits? Do you and your green
“warriors” really want the Gaviota coast to look like Palm Springs, destroying sea mammals and birds in the process?
The green scam has been outed, sorry, not drinking the kool aid. Drill baby, drill!
https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/07/california-wind-solar-projects-face-new-federal-hurdles/
As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a marooon". Sorry to confuse you with the facts and I am also sorry that you are not good at math. Solar only produces 4 hours of electricity per day! Battery plants only store 4 hours worth of power per day. What are you going to do for power the rest of the day?
Andy, Fire yesterday on a battery storage facility in Parkfield. Exact same batteries as Goleta. It caused a 2 mile evacuation in a remote area. Would be interesting to see exactly how we evacuate 2 miles around the Goleta BESS facility which would encompass from
Elwood to the other side of the airport up to Cathedral
Oaks. Is there a plan in place for that level of evacuation onto 101 knowing we have a BESS facility that can catch fire and requires at least a 2 mile evacuation radius?
Tens of thousand of these things everywhere to fake a baseload…
Bob, I was on board,until you lost me with 'fake baseload'.
What we want is a continuous heartbeat of baseload, which can only be done through Nuclear, Hydro, or Fossil Fuels, today. I’m clearly a nuclear fan.
Support that with renewables. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket and keep technology maturing. Unless we get to fusion - I believe fusion may be the exception to all the eggs in one basket, if we can reach it.
It’s all fake. We are making people believe battery storage can maintain a continuous load. Our baseload power is what we need to get through 24/7 continuous power. Renewables by definition are intermittent. Batteries facilities are on the order of 2-4 hours max. We currently have 2% of battery capacity to just get through a single night in CA. All of our baseload is being backed by Diablo Canyon and natural gas. At peak evening hours we are hitting 70% natural gas use. We would need to have battery technology that doesn’t exist today and tens of thousands of battery facilities all over, and you would still keep the natural gas lit as load management. It wouldn’t be awesome if we had a battery fire, and we expended our storage for the night, and some town froze to death overnight.
Anyone on here that’s following the 100% renewable nonsense is in fantasy land, literally. CA’s narrative is all fantasy nonsense.
I hear you and share many of your thoughts.
CA is literally on the same path Germany went down. They are paying the highest energy costs in the EU, burning coal, and importing French nuclear now that their Russian Natural Gas is cutoff.
Plan ahead if one needs to evacuated, because we know the Gaviota rest stop will still be closed. The rest stop to no where - add that to the list of failed Newsom projects.
Let's give Andy a break. He's getting paid $210K a year to lobby for those who fund him. He's just doing his job.
Oil/gas industry has liberated buried carbon to re-enter the planet's cycle of life.
https://x.com/EricaRN4USA/status/1962151838637011119?t=xqVsvjMHneOOlSRw7S3K2Q&s=19