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Well at least the Koch brothers won't profit! They helped Doerr profit instead.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The brilliance of Federalism: the rest of the country is going to get an object lesson in the calamitous consequences of adopting the cap-and-tax agenda.
They may get some help from the state of Texas:
“Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott and others might try to stop AB 32 from being implemented.
California Watch, a project of the nonprofit Independent Center for Investigative Reporting, says that Abbott and his counterparts in Alabama, Nebraska, and North Dakota are contemplating a legal challenge against AB 32 by claiming that it interferes with the right to freely conduct interstate commerce.”
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California is going to become a wasteland if current trends continue. Nevada is next.
The only hope for the southwest is Arizona. Even though most FREEPERS are not crazy about McCain, he is on the right side now and you take what you can get. Governor Brewer is OK as well.
Did it pass or fail?
When all those rich westside liberals and dumb union drones go to turn on the light switch and nothing happens, and have to wait in gas lines from here to Mexico for a few overpriced gallons of ethyl, they’ll all of a sudden want to know who cut off their energy supplies. They’ll need to look in the mirror.
California spending money avoiding CO2 emissions is like a guy whose mortgage is underwater, and who is behind on his payments, and who has termites eating away at his house’s foundation installing uneconomical solar panels on his roof in order to “inspire” his neighbors to “do something about the environment”.
The other key strategem they missed was the failure to identify the interests of the corrupt backers of carbon trading.
In any fight against the environmental left there are three steps that must be made:
Kali is soooooooooo screwed. The Kali ARB shot themselves in the foot when they brought in Peer reviewers. And they have KNOWN this since 2009.
http://www.sbaction.org/get_resource.php?table=resource_kmqap4_18z4ys&id=kmqaq1_1ed1wo
Peer reviewers brought in by ARB to assess the Scoping Plan:22
Matthew E. Kahn, Ph.D.:
The Economic Analysis and the five appendices contain too many uncertainties for AB 32 to be as flawless as it is presented. Although AB 32 offers many benefits, it will also impose costs that have not been taken into account.
Gary Yohe, Ph.D.:
Not all of the new technology will emerge from California. This means that additional costs will be incurred to bring in some of the technology required to reach AB 32 goals. In order to achieve a thorough analysis, both the good and that bad must be displayed. It seems that concluding that this plan will cause no harm is inaccurate.
Robert Stavins, Ph.D.:
The cost estimates that CARB has produced are significant understatements of the true costs, and are useless for identifying a cost-effective portfolio of policies to achieve the objectives.
19 Ibid, p. 14.
20 Letter to the Honorable Roger Niello dated December 12, 2008 from Mr. Mac Taylor, Legislative Analyst.
21 The AB 32 Challenge: Reducing California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” Los Angeles County
Development Corporation, October 2008, pp. 2-3.
22 Peer Review of the Economic Supplement to the AB 32 Draft Scoping Plan; Major Peer Review
Comments and Air Resources Board Staff Responses; November 2008
If any more nonsensical Global Warming Acts are passed in Kalifornia, you will see hundreds or thousands of businesses leave.