Brah.. I can leave my A/C on 68F all day and night and not be pressured to raise it to lol... what was it again? 78F? It's been a couple years since I've left California, I believe 78F is the recommendation during the hotter months. We don't have to worry about rolling blackouts. We don't have to pay for grocery bags. Our gas prices currently is a dollar less than Southern California, almost two dollars cheaper than gas in the Bay Area. Beautiful state, no doubt. Chitty politicians, however.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So do I. Also the only time I had an outage in 25 years was due to equipment failure and, there also was a planned maintenance. It never took longer than a couple hours.

Grocery bags cost like what? 50 cents? It encourages having reusable bags which are more practical anyway and don't break as often.

As for gas, this is a problem with location. On one side we have ocean on the other we have mountains. This causes pollution to be trapped.

This is why Los Angeles was infamous for its smog in 70s and 80s. Catalysts and specifically refined oil helped being it back to healthy levels.

Also I don't get the obsession with the gas. If you look at prices the gas prices were static for nearly 15 years. It is ridiculous that this is still an argument to anything.