David Robb ——Bio and Archives--September 17, 2025

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California has been called the "Golden State", partly because of the golden color of the central valley hills in summer, and partly because of the actual gold found in the state. The growth of Silicon Valley wealth during the late 90s added a new form of gold to the picture. Since then, though, the temptations for politicians to extract as much of that gold to serve their own purposes have proven too great to resist. Our current governor Newsom has been especially susceptible to temptation in matters of energy, immigration, and election manipulation. We can look at some of his temptations.

Energy

About forty years ago, some scientists put out the idea that the climate was changing and the world was heating up due to human use of fossil fuels and the release of carbon dioxide gas. According to them, the gas was trapping the sun's heat, causing the earth to heat up to catastrophic levels. Hot summers, cold winters, more severe storms, more fires, and a whole host of other problems were proposed as consequences of increases in carbon dioxide levels.

Politicians, sensing an opportunity, jumped on the bandwagon and started enacting laws restricting use of fossil fuels, mandating such things as carbon trading and carbon taxes, development of "green" energy sources including wind and solar, and generally working to eliminate an abundant source of energy that powered almost every aspect of our economy.

Our governor saw a perfect opportunity to virtue signal by mandating phase out of gas powered cars, funding solar and wind farms, and generally forcing transition to electricity that we didn't have the capacity to produce or distribute.

While their actions have had no effect on climate,........

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