California proposes “blatant seizure of property” in solar ruling

[Dave911]

You are either in Wake, Mecklenburg or Buncombe.
Or adjacent counties.

So that's the Charlotte area, right?

Well, the GOP in Indiana is very famous for selling out the public to the electric company here. I suspect a lot of campaign funding comes from Indiana Michigan power. So the non-Amish get screwed with higher and higher power rates.

Still, they bend over backwards for the Amish here. The Amish do what they want and dare the government to do anything about it. For instance; with the cost of land rising and the Amish population growing (they typically have 4+ kids) they were subdividing their property for their kids. However they soon realized that if they continued doing that everyone would have 2-5 acres, which is dumb if you are trying to grow hay, corn, etc. So they started building multifamily buildings next to the homesteads. These are usually two story, 3000+ sq ft per floor buildings that housed multiple kids families. At first Indiana tried to stop that. The Amish kept building, with or without permits. Garage/Barns were built and then turned into multifamily residences inside. Ever see a 2nd floor porch on a barn? We have them here! All the county required was a garage door in a big "barn" to make it a barn. So 6000 sq ft buildings popped up with one garage door in it that never opened and was drywalled over on the inside.
The local government finally gave up. Now there is no restriction on putting up basically an apartment buildings on my property and having other families live here if they have some blood relation to me or my wife. Of course no one checks if they are related. So there are multiple families living on one plot of land with no relationship in different multifamily buildings. One place down the road has 6 multifamily buildings on his one plot of land. I have no idea how many people live there. Likely 30+.

They also have quite a bit if off grid solar.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Adjacent to Meck. Wish I was in Meck and wouldn’t be strangled by the buy all/sell all.

Guess I should have included Union and maybe Cabaruss since it’s just an extension of Mecklenburg now.

So that's the Charlotte area, right?

Well, the GOP in Indiana is very famous for selling out the public to the electric company here. I suspect a lot of campaign funding comes from Indiana Michigan power. So the non-Amish get screwed with higher and higher power rates.

Still, they bend over backwards for the Amish here. The Amish do what they want and dare the government to do anything about it. For instance; with the cost of land rising and the Amish population growing (they typically have 4+ kids) they were subdividing their property for their kids. However they soon realized that if they continued doing that everyone would have 2-5 acres, which is dumb if you are trying to grow hay, corn, etc. So they started building multifamily buildings next to the homesteads. These are usually two story, 3000+ sq ft per floor buildings that housed multiple kids families. At first Indiana tried to stop that. The Amish kept building, with or without permits. Garage/Barns were built and then turned into multifamily residences inside. Ever see a 2nd floor porch on a barn? We have them here! All the county required was a garage door in a big "barn" to make it a barn. So 6000 sq ft buildings popped up with one garage door in it that never opened and was drywalled over on the inside.
The local government finally gave up. Now there is no restriction on putting up basically an apartment buildings on my property and having other families live here if they have some blood relation to me or my wife. Of course no one checks if they are related. So there are multiple families living on one plot of land with no relationship in different multifamily buildings. One place down the road has 6 multifamily buildings on his one plot of land. I have no idea how many people live there. Likely 30+.

They also have quite a bit if off grid solar.

No GOP in charge in Mecklenburg, Wake now.
All democrats.

 

[prometheanfire]

Ya in Indiana here. Going solar to avoid rate increases, maybe eventually disconnect to avoid the grid connection fee (14 dollars a month for now). They are raising gas prices too so will convert more to electric down the line...

 

[Batvette]

Because the representative is Darrell Issa, a Republican, as well as the local state senator and legislature rep. And the county reps. SD is not as blue as you think. Plus, if they don't side, who would they have to fight?

Issa is a good guy, unfortunately the bulk of San Diego county (even more the city) flipped blue over a decade ago, and a few republican enclaves in east county cant overpower that. I remember the 80s when Copley Publishing virtually hand picked candidates from the red side and put them in office. Democrats leveraged the exploding hispanic population from the south to their advantage and much like the rest of the state the GOP will never be a serious threat to them again.
Ultra liberal Todd Gloria is running the city into the ground with zero spending on infrastructure while putting up miles and miles of bike lanes nobody wants and eliminating on street parking by the hundreds. Intentional chaos and misery by intent.

 

[Batvette]

They don't have/get to pick a side.
They are US forces. They only follow the chain of command.

They get to pick their pronouns though. Our military surely has a serious leadership problem, dont be surprised to see mutiny in the ranks if theyre asked to do some meany head things to fellow wokies. With no consequences.

 

[Dave911]

Ya in Indiana here. Going solar to avoid rate increases, maybe eventually disconnect to avoid the grid connection fee (14 dollars a month for now). They are raising gas prices too so will convert more to electric down the line...

I'll be retired in 5 years or so and I don't want to have to worry about ridiculous electric rates. They have a gigantic wind farm to the east of us in Ohio which has been quite successful and they are putting up solar farms but none of that translates into lower energy rates. If anything I think they use the investments to justify the rate increases. So much for renewables lowering our power rates. I'm not worried about the connection fee yet. I'm more concerned about $.30 and up per KWHR. I think we will be there or beyond in less than 10 years.

 

[timselectric]

They get to pick their pronouns though. Our military surely has a serious leadership problem, dont be surprised to see mutiny in the ranks if theyre asked to do some meany head things to fellow wokies. With no consequences.

I don't think that anything can surprise me, anymore.
The whole country has gone nuts.
It's still the best place in the world.
It just used to be a lot better.

 

[ChrisG]

Guess I should have included Union and maybe Cabaruss since it’s just an extension of Mecklenburg now.


No GOP in charge in Mecklenburg, Wake now.
All democrats.

Anyway. Only GOP here for decades. Only buy all/ sell all allowed, off-grid illegal. Getting more mad as I type.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Anyway. Only GOP here for decades. Only buy all/ sell all allowed, off-grid illegal. Getting more mad as I

Maybe one day you will get some Conservative Representation that won’t collude with big business and screw their constituents.

 

[glandpuck]

More like RINOs then.
Conservatives don’t tend to collude with big business and screw over their constituents.

Huh. I thought the red party was in favor of bankruptcy for Ford, GM and Chyrsler/Stellantis rather than the bail out.

"The Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry was an ad hoc group of United States cabinet-level and other officials that was formed by President Barack Obama to deal with the financial bailout of automakers Chrysler and General Motors."

Are you saying Obama was a Republican too?

 

[Johneb]

The true Republican party was not in favor of bankruptcy of any business. They jus didn’t believe it was the governments job to bail out a business. Truth be told the automotive industry could have gone into bankruptcy, unloaded a lot of debt and come out the other side ready to do business. Yes, it might have been hard on the economy but we would have survived and been the stronger for it. Less in debt too.

 

[Nobodybusiness]

Huh. I thought the red party was in favor of bankruptcy for Ford, GM and Chyrsler/Stellantis rather than the bail out.

"The Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry was an ad hoc group of United States cabinet-level and other officials that was formed by President Barack Obama to deal with the financial bailout of automakers Chrysler and General Motors."

Are you saying Obama was a Republican too?

I said conservative.
GOP is not conservative. Most are self serving RINOs worried about collecting money to get re-elected.
They are opposite sides of same coin with Democrats being other side.
UNIPARTY.

If it was up to me they would all be out.
No big salary, No benefits, Term limits
It wasn’t meant to be a frigid career. It was a civic duty.
While we are at it push the government back to its original mandates.
Less government the better.

 

[Eber]

I don't think that anything can surprise me, anymore.
The whole country has gone nuts.
It's still the best place in the world.
It just used to be a lot better.

Big time better.
and I am not convinced that Gov intervention improves things.

 

[timselectric]

Big time better.
and I am not convinced that Gov intervention improves things.

It only makes it worse.

 

[G00SE]

I had some govt intervention this week

Dead cow elk in the drainage ditch on our road in front of neighbors property.
Rots for 3 days. No one disposes.
Call game and fish: “don’t care, it’s not on road”
Call county: “don’t care”
Call sheriff: “don’t care, but you also can’t move it without a permit, we don’t have a permit for you”

So noone will move it, and a resident “cant” without a permit. Needless to say the windows are open and I don’t smell dead elk

 

[Willnaz]

"It's not who votes, but who counts the votes." - Biden

Exactly what the communist say, aka demonRATS