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The EV revolution is getting stripped for parts.

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California’s green dream is dying by a thousand copper cuts.

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You can’t plug in progress when the streets are unplugging the city.

BRIEFING

Grant here. Every now and then, a story drops that’s so dripping in irony it feels like satire. Los Angeles, the city that prides itself on being the crown jewel of “green innovation,” has officially short-circuited its own electric dream. The city’s extravagant vision of “zero emissions” is being shorted out by something painfully fitting: the homeless are ripping the copper wiring straight out of EV charging stations. Let’s break it down.

Across LA, electric vehicle chargers are being stripped for parts at a shocking pace. Thieves are cutting cords, prying open panels, and hauling off copper to sell for scrap just to survive another day. What’s left behind looks less like a futuristic eco-city and more like a scrapyard. Chargers are broken, neighborhoods are littered with debris, and the city’s expensive climate agenda is literally being sold by the pound.

It’s the kind of chaos that perfectly captures what happens when utopian policy meets ground-level dysfunction.

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You literally can’t make this up

Los Angeles has a new barrier to getting to Democrats zero emissions. The homeless are stealing all the copper wiring out of EV chargers throughout the city

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Democrats in the state legislature are now scrambling to pass new laws to “crack down” on copper theft. But let’s be honest, this is the same political class that let the crime wave spiral out of control in the first place. When theft is decriminalized and police are defunded, it’s not hard to predict what happens next.

LA leaders are currently imploring Newsom to do something, anything, about this issue, but currently their pleas are going unaddressed.

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Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez, who represents downtown L.A. and Boyle Heights — among the neighborhoods most affected by copper wire theft — introduced the bill in February. It passed the state Assembly and Senate floors unanimously. Now, it’s up to Newsom.

 L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said he supports the bill’s focus on enforcement of metal recyclers because it’s difficult to go after thieves themselves in real time. Hochman added that if the bill gets signed, his office will be “absolutely relentless” in going after “illegal junk and metal recyclers.” Councilmember Ysabel Jurado said AB 476 “shifts the focus to prevention, transparency and accountability” and would make sure families in her district, which is disproportionately affected by copper wire theft, have equitable access to public resources, like functioning streetlights.

So now California is facing a bizarre irony: the state that lectured the rest of the country about sustainability can’t even keep its chargers plugged in. The dream of a clean, green future just got unplugged by the very chaos their own policies created.

The same politicians who champion EVs also gutted law enforcement, decriminalized theft, and turned public spaces into open-air homeless camps. Now they’re shocked that the “future of clean energy” is literally being sawed apart for scrap.

What makes it even more surreal is the symbolism. The great promise of the electric revolution is being unplugged by the very people progressives claim to be helping. The wires are being ripped out, the lights are going dark, and California’s “green dream” is being recycled for pennies at a scrapyard.

NOW YOU KNOW

California’s progress: no power, no safety, no clue.