Colorado Risks California-Style Blackouts if Green-Energy Fad Overrides Common Sense Energy Policies
History of failure by “renewable” energy and leftist environmentalist ideology highlight
Democrat Party’s economic illiteracy and divorce from taxpayers’ reality.
Colorado voters can avoid California-style rolling blackouts (and the incompetent governance
that causes them) when they vote this November. It’s a matter of facts: the results of Democrats’
pursuit of the mirage of renewable energy are on display in Calif. – kept afloat by unmoored
ideological planning that looks good on a bumper sticker but doesn’t function in reality. The
intrinsic hazard of these Democrat policies (green and otherwise) is driving out millions of Calif.
citizens. Do you want the same toxic side-effects to roil Colorado?
Just as experts predicted, renewable energy’s innate problems – including particulars that
accompany the weather conditions of a heat wave – have jeopardized California’s citizens at the
time they need reliable power the most. As if it couldn’t get worse, the Democrats running
California have been very effective at destroying their reliable, inexpensive options like clean
natural gas, coal and nuclear power. Our problem in Colorado is that the Democrats in Denver
want to implement similar mandates to Calif., ones that run counter to market forces and will
result in higher energy prices and reduced supply, will cost every Colorado taxpayer more
money, and are proven to lead to problems like rolling blackouts. We need to elect leaders who
understand how to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy.
We’ve done studies for this region and Colorado. The cost of producing our power with 100%
renewable energy is ridiculous – totally unaffordable. Try 400% higher rates, like Europe at its
worst. If you’re paying $250 a month now, you’d be paying $1000 a month on renewables.
There’s not even a question – the studies are done.
According to media reporting, at least three million California residents lost electricity this
summer – in the midst of a heat wave, and were being encouraged to stay indoors due to forest fires and the COVID-19 virus. As mandated by the Democrats running the state, about a third of
that power in Calif. is required to come from renewables, despite studies that indicate so-called
“green” energy is unable to support more than 12-15% of overall demand. Meanwhile, Democrat
leadership has shuttered coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, reducing capacity by about nine
gigawatts in the past five years (nine gigawatts representing the power necessary to run about
seven million homes). This, after a decade spent installing the selfsame natural gas “peaker
plants” to supply demand... These actions have left Calif. dependent on neighboring states and
coal power from Mexico: when those neighbors don’t have power to spare, Calif. citizens have
no power at all.
My Democrat opponent for Colorado’s House 16 has taken positions that would lead to
conditions similar to California’s, and in some cases worse. She supports energy options that
would require at least 50% of the power for the state be provided by renewables, while calling
for the state to outlaw 100% of oil, gas and coal production – including peaker plants. That
simply won’t work and will lead to the same skyrocketing prices and rolling blackouts that
California is going through.
It’s simple logic. On hot days, people turn on the AC just as output from solar falls flat, and the
wind blows when it wants, not when you need electricity. Meanwhile, we’re watching California
decommission peaker plants and close nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon and San Onofre – the
two of which supplied power to more than 10% of its citizens.
Colorado residents have lessons to learn from this summer’s rolling blackouts in California.
Once known for its innovation, desirable living and booming economy, Calif. is suffering at the
hands of unmitigated Democrat leadership. Their failings extend to the mismanagement of the
state’s resources and power grid. Decisions made in Sacramento have left the citizens of Calif.
without reliable electricity during the day, and led to rolling blackouts throughout the state when
electricity is needed the most. This phenomenon is common in socialist and/or impoverished
nations like Venezuela, Cuba, or former Soviet-bloc countries, but how does it happen in the
U.S. of A? Once again, it’s an easy case of facts: elect Democrats. By its very nature, their leftist
and Marxist governance prioritizes ideology over statistics, engineering and historic trends, which in turn undermines rational decision-making and proven Free Markets in the management
of resources.
I don’t believe Colorado’s taxpayers want the Democrat-led downfall of California, nor their
Marxist-environmentalism – socialism wrapped in environmental ideology. Can you afford these
failed policies? A vote for me is a vote to keep our power grid dependable, ensure that our
energy supplies are reliable, and let the market work to taxpayers’ advantage. I want life to be
affordable for Colorado residents, and I want businesses to come here, not leave town because
Colorado’s gotten too expensive or because we can’t keep the lights on.
History of failure by “renewable” energy and leftist environmentalist ideology highlight
Democrat Party’s economic illiteracy and divorce from taxpayers’ reality.
Colorado voters can avoid California-style rolling blackouts (and the incompetent governance
that causes them) when they vote this November. It’s a matter of facts: the results of Democrats’
pursuit of the mirage of renewable energy are on display in Calif. – kept afloat by unmoored
ideological planning that looks good on a bumper sticker but doesn’t function in reality. The
intrinsic hazard of these Democrat policies (green and otherwise) is driving out millions of Calif.
citizens. Do you want the same toxic side-effects to roil Colorado?
Just as experts predicted, renewable energy’s innate problems – including particulars that
accompany the weather conditions of a heat wave – have jeopardized California’s citizens at the
time they need reliable power the most. As if it couldn’t get worse, the Democrats running
California have been very effective at destroying their reliable, inexpensive options like clean
natural gas, coal and nuclear power. Our problem in Colorado is that the Democrats in Denver
want to implement similar mandates to Calif., ones that run counter to market forces and will
result in higher energy prices and reduced supply, will cost every Colorado taxpayer more
money, and are proven to lead to problems like rolling blackouts. We need to elect leaders who
understand how to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy.
We’ve done studies for this region and Colorado. The cost of producing our power with 100%
renewable energy is ridiculous – totally unaffordable. Try 400% higher rates, like Europe at its
worst. If you’re paying $250 a month now, you’d be paying $1000 a month on renewables.
There’s not even a question – the studies are done.
According to media reporting, at least three million California residents lost electricity this
summer – in the midst of a heat wave, and were being encouraged to stay indoors due to forest fires and the COVID-19 virus. As mandated by the Democrats running the state, about a third of
that power in Calif. is required to come from renewables, despite studies that indicate so-called
“green” energy is unable to support more than 12-15% of overall demand. Meanwhile, Democrat
leadership has shuttered coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, reducing capacity by about nine
gigawatts in the past five years (nine gigawatts representing the power necessary to run about
seven million homes). This, after a decade spent installing the selfsame natural gas “peaker
plants” to supply demand... These actions have left Calif. dependent on neighboring states and
coal power from Mexico: when those neighbors don’t have power to spare, Calif. citizens have
no power at all.
My Democrat opponent for Colorado’s House 16 has taken positions that would lead to
conditions similar to California’s, and in some cases worse. She supports energy options that
would require at least 50% of the power for the state be provided by renewables, while calling
for the state to outlaw 100% of oil, gas and coal production – including peaker plants. That
simply won’t work and will lead to the same skyrocketing prices and rolling blackouts that
California is going through.
It’s simple logic. On hot days, people turn on the AC just as output from solar falls flat, and the
wind blows when it wants, not when you need electricity. Meanwhile, we’re watching California
decommission peaker plants and close nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon and San Onofre – the
two of which supplied power to more than 10% of its citizens.
Colorado residents have lessons to learn from this summer’s rolling blackouts in California.
Once known for its innovation, desirable living and booming economy, Calif. is suffering at the
hands of unmitigated Democrat leadership. Their failings extend to the mismanagement of the
state’s resources and power grid. Decisions made in Sacramento have left the citizens of Calif.
without reliable electricity during the day, and led to rolling blackouts throughout the state when
electricity is needed the most. This phenomenon is common in socialist and/or impoverished
nations like Venezuela, Cuba, or former Soviet-bloc countries, but how does it happen in the
U.S. of A? Once again, it’s an easy case of facts: elect Democrats. By its very nature, their leftist
and Marxist governance prioritizes ideology over statistics, engineering and historic trends, which in turn undermines rational decision-making and proven Free Markets in the management
of resources.
I don’t believe Colorado’s taxpayers want the Democrat-led downfall of California, nor their
Marxist-environmentalism – socialism wrapped in environmental ideology. Can you afford these
failed policies? A vote for me is a vote to keep our power grid dependable, ensure that our
energy supplies are reliable, and let the market work to taxpayers’ advantage. I want life to be
affordable for Colorado residents, and I want businesses to come here, not leave town because
Colorado’s gotten too expensive or because we can’t keep the lights on.
