Posted on 04/12/2007 7:44:36 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday told American automobile companies to "get off your butt" to promote cleaner technologies and said international trade sanctions may be needed to protect the global environment.
Declaring that California "is sending the world a message" in leading the fight on global warming, Schwarzenegger made his remarks as the featured speaker for a Global Environmental Leadership Conference at Georgetown University. He is getting national attention -- appearing on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week -- for California's efforts to roll back greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2020.
"In California, we are doing everything we can to tip the balance in favor of the environment," Schwarzenegger said in his remarks. "California is big. California is powerful, and what we do in California has an impact. We are sending the world a message."
In meetings with politicians, academics and the U.S. foreign policy elite, Schwarzenegger is invoking California as an environmental model.
This week, he privately urged Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson to grant California a waiver needed to regulate tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.
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I’ll get “off my butt” long enough for the RINOnator to kiss it.
On behalf of the Great state of Michigan I recommend that california get its head out of its butt!
-—post of the day, so far—the US auto industry has very likely done more to “clean up” the air than the rest of the world put together-
Great! Now why don't YOU get Kalifornia of ITS butt and make environmentally friendly cars? Oh wait, let me guess...that would involve making cars that actually RUN.
You can only make gasoline/diesel emissions so clean.
I’ve sent this Rino asshat serveral messages but he doesn’t seem to get it. Guess there are too many liberals in CA that he has to kiss butt on in order to retain power. Hopefully we will recall or vote this turkey out.
Like I said last night. Is he going to give us the billions of dollars to refit the entire auto industry, the infrastructure to support it, the green fuel supply industry, and subsidies so we can actually buy the overpriced ecofriendly cars he wants?
Yet another proclamation from “the covert Kennedy”.
“get off your butt”
Hey Arnold, BLOW IT OUT YOURS, PAL!
Back in 1986 I owned a diesel Peugeot - a great car.
The car was flooded and needed a new engine - long story there - and the only engine available in North America was from California. Unbeknownst to me, Cali emissions had required that the engine have one plastic piston (why I have no idea, something to do with emissions) and within 2 years that part failed and required another engine replacement at $6000 + labor.
I sadly threw in the towel on that car.
I still say Cali owes me a new car...I’m still waiting.
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