Posted on 04/28/2009 5:02:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
California's Air Resources Board on Thursday approved a first-in-the-world regulation to minimize the amount of carbon in fuel, putting California on the cutting edge of promoting alternative fuels in a bid to combat global warming.
The regulation will require fuel manufacturers to cut the so-called carbon intensity of fuels sold in the state 10 percent by 2020 - lowering the amount of greenhouse gases released for every unit of energy produced.
"Now, finally, we are creating the opportunity for other types of transportation fuels to compete on a level playing field," Nichols said.
Manufacturers can meet the standard by selling a mix of fuels, selling all low-carbon fuels or using credits that can be both bought and earned from the state if they exceed the limitations. Alternative fuels include electricity, natural gas, biofuel from food products and fuel from algae, among others.
At the all-day public hearing before the vote, backers of corn-based ethanol criticized the regulation because it counts - as part of the carbon intensity - the indirect effects of manufacturing the fuel. With corn-based ethanol, that means counting the impact of creating new crop land when existing land is converted to growing corn for fuel instead of food.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Electricity is an 'alternative fuel'?
Food-based biofuels ... so they'll burn food or use arable land to grow fuel rather than use petroleum?
Also, doesn't burning ANY carbon based product release CO2?
That slamming sound is businesses walking out of the state.
Goodbye California. Soon you will have an economy no different from Mexico...along with a population that also is no different.
Goodbye California. Soon you will have an economy no different from Mexico...along with a population that also is no different.
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Seguro que si!
Stupid idiots. As long as they just stay there for the next 200 years and try and pick up the pieces.
California is a place with bad ideas that only work out because they’re never bad enough to collapse the state. Apparently they have leaders who are willing to go the extra mile to see how much the state can suffer before it completely collapses.
Air isn't a resource ... it's God's way of keeping human life (in the blod) happening.
These people are insane.
Where the hell in the US Constitution does it say that UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE fascist bureaucrats can write law?
Where???
The legislature can no more transfer their law-making power to unelected fascist bureaucrats than obuma can transfer his war-making power to Bill Ayers.
How stupid we are. These damn Marxist bureaucrats should be dragged from behind their desks and hanged from a lamp post.
Giving up on pencils?
???????? Wasn't the field level before this action.
Please note, however, that companies that fail to meet this bizarre standard can buy their peace from the government.
Global warming is the new religion; government is its church; and carbon credits are the new indulgences.
Two ironic things. The biofuels crowd doesn’t like it. And after all California does, they will still have the pollution blowing from across the Pacific from China, Russia, and India, who are not buying all this global warming crap.
Why not simply pass a law requiring vehicles to run on water? Water has no carbon.
Comment from site: Now if California would just repeal the law of supply and demand, as well as the laws of physics, you really could have nirvana.
If they lower the “carbon intensity” they lower the energy content. Therefore they lower the mileage. Therefore, people have to buy more fuel to get the carbon they need to get the car to where they need to go.
If lowering carbon in fuel is good, why don’t they take it all out? ;-)
Do they think these are carbonless fuels?
Exactly. They they don’t have to buy those pesky ‘offsets’.
Why didn’t they think of that?
Dear CARB:
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
I have been saying the same thing for years about un-elected bureaucrats writing laws. Apparently noone is listening.
In this case, the nasty law was Assembly Bill 32 (AB32), another one of Arnie's "bipartisan" accomplishments and probably the most destructive piece of legislation ever passed in California, IMO. It was signed into law in November 2006.
Oh, never mind that 100% of GOP legislators opposed it -- since Arnie championed it, he calls it "bipartisan."
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