Posted on 11/03/2010 2:15:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Now that California’s Prop 23 to suspend the AB32 global warming law has failed, you get some real clarity from the players. If you ever doubted that our current crop of “save the planet” bureaucrats think they are above answering to the very citizens that pay their salary, this quote should put any doubt you may have had to rest.
From public TV station KQED’s “climate watch” blog:
“They didn’t know who they were messing with,” said Mary Nichols, when the first numbers came in from the polls.
Wow. Just wow. Hubris maximus. Lady, you need a reality check.
Read the holier than thou hubris yourself here. Read here why Prop 23 was felled by feelings, and not by facts.
Here’s the effervescent Mary Nichols dealing with CARB’s DiplomaGate:
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
My wife’s Riviera went from 28 mpg to 25 overnight and eventually every gas station in Humboldt county had to dig up their tanks and haul the contaminated soil to a “approved” dump site. It was as though the MTBE seeped through the walls of the tanks
"Diffused" is the correct word, and yes, it did. The oil companies knew it would happen too. There are not a few executives and lawyers who belong in jail, particularly at the NRDC.
Whether wind or solar or algae, just about every "investor" seems to think that putting oil companies out of business and forcing citizens to pay 10X times more for energy is a good idea.
You will also find some supposed do-gooders giving money to No on Prop 23, like the Sierra club, the Google founders, Julia Packard. Even the bankrupt Tesla Motors was doling out money to the NO on 23 campaign.
Then, of course, you've got the extortionist groups like the NRDC, the Tides Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund (who also benefitted from $300K from Meg), and others.
And then, you had the head cheerleader: Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, the guy that was going to save the California Republican Party with his wizardry and brilliance in commerce. He couldn't help himself from railing about the evil Texas Oil Companies and the greedy rich people that wanted to pollute the air.
How can you resent Bill Gates wanting to be a part of that cocktail party?
A peon like me couldn't stand a party like that. I'd be too busy trying to keep the vomit off my tie to have any fun blowing what's left of their minds.
I understand the sentiment.
If I got an invitation, you’d find me at home - washin’ my hair.
;-)
Perhaps your tag line should now read RIP Prop. 23 As for this issue, there’s nothing worse than the use of class warfare against oil companies and their owners. People who honestly believe the earth is going to fry must stand up to that nonsense, but when they don’t it is obvious what their real motives are.
Give me gas for my car, keep me rollin... Give me gas from Valero, I prey... Give me gas for my car, keep me rollin... Keep me rollin till I hit the hay!!!
I have nothing against oil companies (other than their foisting of MTBE), but their owners are the single largest contributors to the Global Warming scam.
Global Warming on Free Republic
Some of their owners. The Koch brothers are notable holdouts even with the EPA shutting down their refineries. It is literally a war against economic progress and, you are right, some of the oil company owners have joined the dark side either figuring on more profit or just saving their own butts.
The Rockefellers and the British Royals were there from the inception.
Thanks for the ping.
Pretty simple math here.
As we saw in the Berlin occupation, there was a brain drain to the West of the best minds.
As will happen, the cooling Earth over the next 30 years will cause a migration southward.
For those who cannot find work in California and as Spain already has learned, the green job economy can’t support the populace, we should see a migration of a wide swath of occupations out of California.
Now, where will it end.
We know that Obama bargained water rights and the needs of the people for Obamacare voted before he turned on the water, an Updated “Chinatown”.
Soon the state of California will turn to the US government for a bail out rather than reverse course and be responsible for themselves.
This could domino through the US.
California believes it sets the pace for the US. Not anymore.
What California has done to itself, well we don’t need to mess with it anymore.
Arnold will be back in movie production by the first of the year. He can wash his hands of it for the people were duped into this by a chronic series of lies.
Nashing of teeth.
Thanks for the ping.
Paul
Aren’t Mary Nichols and Jerry Brown both investors in the Indonesian oil monopoly created by CARB ruling?
Bump!
I can't imagine living without those "evil oil companies."
Well, I don’t need to tell you that your way of living would certainly change... BIGTIME!!! (sigh)
There was so many things wrong about i-Carly, I had forgotten about my post at your link. ;-)
I didn’t remember it specifically but I found it when looking up keyword: johndoerr (a big contributor to the No on 23 campaign)
He seems to be on the wrong side of most propositions - and benefiting from them at the same time.
What a coincidence, huh?
No. Daddy Brown's oil company has been defunct for years and the US hasn't imported distillate fuel oil from Indonesia for a decade, at least.
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