This just in from California

News item:  California just passed a law banning the sale of all "small off-road engines" starting in 2024.  This ban will include all lawn equipment, and...generators.  And some sources are reporting that state "air resources board" will ben even the USE of gasoline-powered lawn mowers beginning in 2024.

Of course electric lawn-mowers are pretty nice, so other than forcing people who own a piston-powered mower to buy a new electric one, that won't screw things up too terribly.  But given the ubiquity of rolling blackouts in that electricity-short state, the thugs running the place were a bit...reluctant to outlaw the USE of generators after 2023 (although that's probably coming).  They just couldn't legally be sold in the state after 2023.

This leads us to wonder:  California used to have "inspection stations" on all major roads into the state.  If you had a contraband orange or tomato in your car, the staatspolitzei would confiscate it.  Of course there was a really good reason for that.

There's *always* a good reason, eh?

So one can guess that after the ban on the sale of new generators kicks in, there's likely to be a lucrative black-market in the things.  So one imagines the staatspolitzei will be searching all vehicles coming into the state, not for drugs or illegal aliens, but for generators.

But Alexandria Occasionally-Crazy has a bill already drafted that will solve the problem:  Require that all backup generators be electrically powered.