Posted on 06/24/2009 6:10:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sacramento, CA (AP) --
California refineries and utilities are facing a new levy intended to pay for the state's landmark program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If approved, the fee would raise $51.2 million annually for the next three years and would be the country's first statewide carbon fee on industry. The total would drop to $36.2 million by the fifth year.
The fee will be considered Thursday by the California Air Resources Board.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Meanwhile gas is again $3.05 a gallon in the east bay and with this crap probably quickly go back over $4.
They will never GET IT.
“If approved, the fee would raise $51.2 million annually for the next three years and would be the country’s first statewide carbon fee on industry. The total would drop to $36.2 million by the fifth year. “
In year four it would cost $100 million because the industry will collapse, put thousands out of people out of work and destroy associated businesses in the state.
These freaking people got to go. Then again, Californians are stuck on stupid so they will get what they deserve.
Yup! California is controlled by idiots. Arnold has been revealed to be nothing but an undercover leftie. The Democratic Party controlled legislature has bankrupted the state and seems determined to drive business from that miserable place. They are succeeding. It is too bad for the sane and decent people who can not afford to leave that sewer.
I better not hear about Federal tax dollars going to that liberal hell-hole to bail out their leftist policies. Let them pay the full price for their stupidity.
Let’s shed maximum light on the failure of the policies they are trying to thrust on the rest of us.
How to create an industry free state. Now the greatest export from California will be the whine, “That isn’t how we did it in California”. And we all know just how well that has worked out for you.
global warming ping
They already did it:
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=N5MIVUQQRYYGSQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=215000002
I wonder how many of those fabs are going to be around in a year or so?
Worse, the electorate has no direct access to these idiots. Members of the California Air Resources Board are not subject to recall and replacement, even by a favourable executive, takes time, unless resignations can be coerced.
j.u.s.t. c.r.a.z.y. Drive more businesses away... and decrease your tax revenues.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
This state has spent like drunken sailors to make CA a lib utopia, are stoney broke, and want a bail out--still, thinking of yet another tax on utilities to pass on to the consumer--that same consumer who may be laid off and broke.
Just off the coast is billions of gallons of oil. Drilling, building a refinery or two, and another utility or two would create good paying jobs galore; the new utilities would keep the light on without importing so much from other states.
What is this idiocy that says we MUST NOT drill, when it is a proven fact that nature throws up more oil spills every year than is caused by drilling, shipping, etc.
Alternatives sound nice, but as of now, WE HAVE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVES; we are at OPEC's mercy. What is so difficult about that to understand?
vaudine
Great clip. Depressing. Right on. Too bad.
The people on the Left have a vision: Mother Nature, Mother Earth all happy with no industry (except what is necessary for the Leaders to maintain present luxuries). All the rest of us are dispensable.
THEY have a dream — and WE’RE not in it.
There is no logic here to argue. They know what they are doing and as long as they can maintain their “media image” they are indomable.
But if the globe cools, then they will pay us back, right?
No one can say, will the last one leaving California, turn off the lights, there will be no lights to turn off.
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