When satire meets reality...

I found this first piece at Instapundit where Ed Driscoll refers to Babylon Bee as America's Newspaper of Record. lol 

Via Babylon Bee:

Gavin Newsom, governor of the state with the highest people-to-electricity ratio in the nation, banned gasoline cars yesterday via executive order. The order takes effect in 2035, meaning by that time, everyone in the state with no electricity will only be able to plug in their cars to the power grid that does not work.

"Everyone, plug in those cars!" Newsom said proudly in a room lit only by candlelight, since, you know, the whole electricity thing. "Other states run on backward, outdated fossil fuels. We are the state of the future, so we will run solely on electricity. Which, you know, we're working on. We could have power by 2035. You never know."

There was an awkward silence.

"SCIENCE!" Newsom said, regaining his momentum and drawing applause from the reporters gathered.

 However, in the real world it was announced: 

As part of Climate Week 2020, California Governor Newsom today issued an executive order declaring the goal of eliminating fossil fuels from transportation, a sector that produces half of California’s toxic and greenhouse gas emissions. The order calls for ending all sales of new fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in the next fifteen years, and calls on various state agencies to begin formulating regulations and strategies, and identifying actions and investments, to create a “just transition” away from reliance on fossil fuels.

While it set goals – which Newsom acknowledged “are nothing more than dreams with deadlines” – the executive order leaves the details to be worked out by agencies equipped to do so. For example, the Air Resources Board is tasked with developing regulations and strategies to reach the zero-emission goals.

Why is the Babylon Bee making a joke of this:

According to Steve Berberich, CEO and President of the Cal ISO, there are three reasons that the state is seeing the rolling blackouts now. One reason: Abnormally high heat.

“I challenge the notion that this is normal summer heat,” Berberich said. “We haven’t seen heat like this since 2006. And in fact, Death Valley, a day or two ago, had the highest recorded temperature on Earth at 130 degrees.”

Another reason for the blackouts is the entire Western United States is seeing higher temperatures, which makes it difficult for California to import power.

Lastly, Berberich said California has fewer resources for power with coal power plants going offline.

I read somewhere that California is a trendsetter, sadly a trendsetter for bad policies...