This is hardly how the problems with California's electricity and manufacturing sectors arose: > "The state’s climate change policies, however well-intentioned

This is hardly how the problems with California's electricity and manufacturing sectors arose: > "The state’s climate change policies, however well-intentioned, have had a particularly devastating impact on manufacturing. California’s “renewable energy” push has generated high energy prices and the nation’s least-reliable power grid, crippling an industry reliant on fossil fuels and a stable electric supply. The state fell to 44th in the country in manufacturing sector employment growth last year. . ." In reality neoliberal trade policies facilitated the outsourcing of California's electronics and garment manufacturing industry over the past 40 years. This alone accounts for much of the loss of middle-class prosperity around the Bay Area and the Los Angeles Basin. Furthermore, the disastrous deregulation of the investor-owned utility sector is what caused electricity bills to spike initially and the few publicly-owned electricity distributers had lower rates. Getting off fossil fuels doesn't 'destabilize the grid', either. I don't know enough about the rest of the claims in the article to say anything about them, but the take on energy and manufacturing looks inaccurate at best.