Posted on 10/05/2006 8:38:15 PM PDT by calcowgirl
California has an oil addiction. As every self-help professional knows, to break an addiction you have to face the problem and admit you're hooked. The arguments against Proposition 87 sound as hollow as an alcoholic promising to stop after just one more drink.
Proposition 87 would develop cleaner, cheaper fuels for our vehicles and build new energy industries and jobs here at home, in places such as Stockton, Salinas and San Diego.
Despite valiant efforts and significant improvement for decades, the state still has the nation's worst air pollution, causing asthma, lung disease, cancer and crop damage, and exacerbating the conditions that result in devastating forest fires. Central Valley communities suffer most: One in five San Joaquin Valley children have asthma so badly they miss school regularly. California also has the nation's highest gas prices, which hurt families with modest incomes and small businesses the hardest.
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Yes, we "addicts" have a problem, but we didn't get hooked alone. Just as tobacco companies lied to the public and regulators about the harms of smoking for decades, oil and auto companies have done likewise. As a result, today it is the particulate matter from burning diesel fuel in buses and trucks that penetrates deep into our lungs, causing respiratory illness and premature death in the thousands.
So a few brave addicts have admitted the problem and proposed one modest step toward solving it -- Proposition 87. But the oil companies are up to their old tricks, bankrolling a massive campaign with ads that TV station KGO called "misleading" and "not accurate." Consumers would pay nothing under Proposition 87 -- the money to invest in these new alternative fuels would come from enormous oil company profits instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Terry Tamminen is the former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and a policy adviser and author. His book "Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of our Oil Addiction," will be released soon.
Another socialist tw*t
So, a legitimate business operation is to be taxed to benefit another business that the author supports?
Interesting ethics.
Let the author put his/her own money where his/her mouth is.
Ya think they would have learned with the electricity fiasco.
Betcha Tamminen has an interest in ethanol....a monetary interest.
No, my friend, you're wrong. Liberals like to put YOUR money where their mouth is.
Forget it, buddy. No Liberal Guilt here. They just found a new bunch of oil in the Gulf -- 15 BILLION barrels. Sing the sad song to someone else.
And get your mitts out of California. It's bad enough without more taxes going to you idiots.
hahaha.
So then if we add a little tax it will make the gas cheaper, then wouldn't make sense if raise the tax enough the gas will be free!
ROFL! You're understanding the democrats! Pure brilliance!
Now, how about $100/hr minimum wage?
Under what administration was Tamminen the Secretary? Gray Davis? This is just another socialist proposition, that doesn't make anymore sense than the rest. Our gas is the highest in the nation, and these idiots want to tax the source? Californians will pay. Stating otherwise is a lie.
Yeah. I;m with you. Dig a little and you'll probably hit ethanol.
I wonder where the hikers and campers will go when the trails and campsites are plowed under for corn....
Yep. Just come to California. But I'll bet that there aren't as many as the author is counting on.
LOLOLOL!!!
There are a lot of articles about Tamminen on FR. (click keyword 'tamminen' above.) He was a buddy of RFK jr. who helped write Schwarzenegger's environmental policy and was appointed to two top posts in the administration. Since resigning earlier this year, he has joined in with Gore and the Clinton Global Initiative to spread "the word."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703517/posts
If Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most influential leaders on the environment today, much credit goes to Terry Tamminen, the brains behind the California governor's brawn on all things green.
Tamminen, a Democrat and long-time conservationist, teamed up with the Republican actor and bodybuilder three years ago for his election and later became his top environmental aide.
Their efforts culminated last month in a bipartisan landmark global warming law that makes California the first US state to mandate a cut in greenhouse gas emissions, equal to 25 percent by 2020.
Now the governor, who has accused fellow Republican US President George W. Bush of failing to show leadership on climate, is sending Tamminen out to convince other states to follow the nation's largest economy.
"What California is doing can be replicated by other states," Tamminen told Reuters in an interview on Friday. "We can create over the next few years a de facto national policy on climate change and we don't have to wait for the federal government."
Bullshit. So-called cleaner fuels (aka designer fuels) are the reason we Californians already higher fuel prices. This guy's just another liberal that wants to play with our money and the notion that Prop. 87 funds will come from oil company profits and not consumers is absolutely crazy.
What we should have done was ride into Texas, guns blazing, and took over the gas and oil fields and pipelines. Then we should have turned Texas into a Calif State Park...
You lookin' for a civil war? If I was gonna pick a fight, I don't think I'd go after So. Texas! LOL
You beat me to it!LOL
If we turned it into a state park they would ban oil production.
Their is lots of oil just off shore if we could just get it.
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