The Net Zero emission goals of California government leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom, cannot ignore the fundamental reality that wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity.

Beyond chemistry, hydrocarbons underpin physical mobility. 

Electrification has yet to demonstrate credible substitutes for these domains, especially under conditions of conflict, disruption, or extreme demand. We must have an “all of the above” energy solution.

Renewable electricity, by contrast, is structurally narrow. Wind and solar generate electricity, and only electricity, intermittently. They do not produce molecules, fuels, or industrial feedstocks. They depend on weather, geography, and extensive material inputs, many of which are themselves derived from fossil fuels and geopolitically concentrated supply chains. Storage solutions remain costly, scale-limited, and technologically immature relative to the scope of modern energy systems. It doesn’t mean they are not important, they are, but they have limitations.

Will it always be like this? Probably not, but it’s the current reality.

Hospitals and the entire medical industry, transportation mobility, national security,  and the health and well-being of millions in California and billions on this planet, will suffer from the transition to wind turbines and solar panels as those so-called renewables only generate electricity, but CANNOT support that supply chain of the thousands of products demanded by doctors and hospitals, i.e., the more than 6,000 products and transportation fuels that are........

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