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Gas $10/gallon in CA

04 Saturday Jun 2022

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc.

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California, deep green, esg, fuel, green idiocy, inflation

The most expensive gas in US is at this Mendocino station at nearly $10 a gallon, GasBuddy says

https://abc7news.com/california-gas-mendocino-prices-schlafers-auto-repair-gasbuddy/11924002/

How’s that #deepgreen #greenidiocy #esg working for you, California?

Great summation of the state of California

14 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc.

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California

All in all, California is rapidly approaching Third World status. It’s got all the standard features: collapsing infrastructure, intermittent public services, a widening chasm between the kleptocratic rich and the desperate poor, and a dysfunctional government good at rhetoric and buck-passing, but rather less skilled at providing basic services to its population. Oh, and let’s not forget mass outmigration; like most Third World states, California has huge outflows of people heading for less dysfunctional regions. Donald Trump hasn’t yet proposed building a wall to keep them out of the US, but some of his followers have, and I’m far from sure they’re joking.

The thing to keep in mind here is that California didn’t land in that predicament by doing any of the things that the collective wisdom of our times labels “regressive.” It didn’t emulate Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, or any of the other states our comfortable classes like to insult as “backwards.”  Quite the contrary, people in rural Arkansas, Alabama, and West Virginia still have power when the weather’s hot and the wind picks up, and nobody in Little Rock, Birmingham, or Wheeling has to worry about hosing human excrement off their sidewalks. No, California got where it is by following exactly those policies that have been most loudly praised by the cultural mainstream as forward-thinking. It has progressed into its present condition.

link: https://www.ecosophia.net/dancers-at-the-end-of-time-part-three-a-mortal-splendor/

Los Angeles on Fire, Again

16 Sunday Nov 2008

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Political

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arizona, California, los angeles fires

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081116/ts_nm/us_wildfire_california_23

Fires ring Los Angeles, thousands flee gutted homes – Yahoo! News via kwout

There was a joke going around a few years back.”What are the  seasons of California?” “Fire, Flood, Riot, and Drought”. Not funny if you’re trapped there. When I meet someone who moved to AZ from CA, I greet them with “Welcome to America! Or what’s left of it.”

California Wildfires

23 Tuesday Oct 2007

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc., Prescott_AZ

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California, prescott, wildfire

Scary stuff. I remember the 2002 “Indian” fire (if you follow this link, go to the bottom of the linked article) here in Prescott, AZ. It got into the city limits, several homes burned, many were evacuated.  At the time my mother-in-law was living near the White Spar fire house, she and her neighbors were on standby to be evacuated. She saw glowing embers from the fire drifting in the wind.

This also reminds me of a California joke going around in the late 1990’s: Name the 4 seasons in California? Fire, Flood, Earthquake, and Riot. We in AZ have lots of things to say about CA and the waves of CA “refugees” who move here every year. When we meet someone who moved here from The Peoples Republic of California, we often greet them with “Welcome to America!”.

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