California ditched coal. The gas company is worried it's next

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Now that solar and wind power are cheap and California has nearly vanquished coal, gas is becoming one of the state's main climate battlefronts.

, prompting environmental groups to spend more time and money pushing building electrification.

Faced with growing support for electrification, the utility is marshaling local governments to its cause.The gas company is warning local officials that California will ban gas and force residents to pay thousands of dollars for electric appliances — unless they join the utility’s campaign against electrification.

The Times could find only one city that voted down the gas company’s resolution: Arvin, a community of 20,000 in California’s oil and gas country. A sign warns of a SoCalGas pipeline running through the California desert toward the Los Angeles Basin. To meet California’s long-term climate targets, state policymakers may eventually need to take aggressive steps to ban or severely restrict fossil gas.

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Californians don't need electricity It's a utopian paradise, run on liberal dreams Beautiful, just close your eyes (may not have to if its dark) and live the dream

Close down that gas company. CA don’t need no stinking gas

What will become of Jerry Brown's sister's Board position? A number of key crony positions are involved here. These people need their paid Board seats. Let's not be hasty.

GavinNewsom should look into the clean nuclear energy BillGates has proposed through TerraPower.

Solar power is cheap? What fantasy world do you live in?

Not as cheap as this newspaper.

Stop the liberal insanity. We need natural gas in Cali. StoptheDemLynching

Exactly why I had to lay off the California Raisins.... But I like Raisins

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