It’s Tuesday, January 10th. Here’s a roundup of news stories in and around San Diego County. Here’s what John Riley thinks:

• The feast and famine cycle of droughts and floods in California
  
• Assemblyman Vince Fong
  
  • https://www.kusi.com/san-diego-leaders-call-for-critical-investment-into-water-infrastructure/
    
  
  
• Positive Developments in San Diego County with Desal Plant, Pure Water recycling, expansion of San Vicente Dam.
  
• Some cities installing cisterns beneath parks to capture and store water.
  
• Poway making progress on water infrastructure.
  

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-06/if-natural-gas-prices-across-the-country-are-dropping-why-are-they-soaring-in-san-diego
  
• Wholesale prices up more than 300% since January 2022
  
• A household gas bill that came to about $105 last January is now estimated to leap to about $225 this month. That’s an increase of 114 percent. 
  
• Prices are about current conditions and a view of the future
  
• It almost always comes down to supply and demand. But often there are policies that affect each.
  
• Demand high in the West (rain, snow, cold) – but mild weather in the East
  
• Approx 90% of supply comes from out of state
  
• Less supply – U.S. LNG exporters boosted shipments to Europe by more than 137% in the first 11 months of 2022 from the same period in 2021, according to data from Kepler, supplying more than half of Europe’s imported LNG and helping the region weather a more than 54% plunge in piped shipments from Russia.
  
  • https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-both-lifeline-drain-europe-2023-maguire-2022-12-20/
    
  
  
• Biden administration considering ban on gas stoves. Due to asthma or climate change policy?
  
• San Diego County Cities are already banning gas in new construction: San Diego, Encinitas, and possibly Del Mar.
  
• What can you do? Be energy self-sufficient. Solar, battery, LED. Wear a sweater. Control what you can control.
  

• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/carlsbad/story/2023-01-09/opinions-sought-on-roundabout-for-tamarack-and-carlsbad-boul
  
• City asking for input for roundabout at Carlsbad Blvd (PCH) and Tamarack Ave.
  
• Carlsbad already has one roundabout in development at Carlsbad Blvd and Cannon Road.
  
• Discussion of roundabouts in Poway.
  

Thank you!

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