Re-Posting: Why I Love To Blog -- Reason #37 -- June 12, 2022

A huge "thank you" to a reader who fact-checked this for me.

The screenshot below was sent to me by a trusted reader but no date was provided for the actual news article. The date for the file photo was dated July 25, 2019.

It turns out the AP fact-checked this and the story is accurate. The AP fact-check was apparently posted March 18, 2022.

But most interesting, this occurred even earlier than I thought. The EV-risk to the California grid apparently occurred even earlier, back during the June, 2021 heat wave.

AP'S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. The headline being shared was from a June 2021 heat wave — not mid-March 2022 — and was a voluntary recommendation that residents charge electric vehicles and do other activities outside of certain peak periods.

The link is to a Fox source (FOXLA) and the google app generally doesn't allow a link to Fox. 

So far, here in Texas, we haven't had similar alerts despite a record-breaking heat wave this weekend. 

Huge thanks for a reader catching this, fact-checking and confirming, not only that it was accurate but it occurred last year, earlier than I had thought.

Again, my usual disclaimer. 

All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them.

Link here.  It should be noted this is from the "liberal" twitter news feed.