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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by mdorazio on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:15PM (#17209717)
When did users on this forum get so lazy they can't provide a citation when making potentially bogus claims? The burden of proof should always be on the person making a claim, not the person reading it.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by ams6110 on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:20PM (#17209765)
Rolling blackouts in the summer in California have been in the news perennially.
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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by bduerst on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:35PM (#17210600)
Yeah, isolated blackouts from a transformer explosion maybe, but not the demand-based blackouts from 2000-2001.

In fact, California is now a model for other western states on how to fix your energy grid:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/scorc...

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Re:California approves $768M for electric vehicles by phil248 on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:20PM (#17211379)
Only if they've changed the definition of the word "perennially".
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