Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/04/2011 9:33:26 AM PST by jazusamo
Yoo da man, tubebender... Yoo da MAN!!!
Celebration may be premature.
From my post yesterday: “At first I thought this was good news. Further googling shows that the case was brought by a bunch of environmental loons (operating under the name “Association of Irritated Residents”) who seem driven to put California out of business altogether. Heaven forbid that the “trade” part of cap-and-trade would allow some of those evil greenhouse gas ‘polluters’ to still operate in California. They think California should be required to meet all of the stricter emission standards post-haste, not be able to reduce emissions in timbuktoo for exchange.”
The judge took exception to the ‘trade’ part of cap-and-trade. I’m not so sure he took exception to the ‘cap’ part, at all. I haven’t had time to read the court ruling, though.
Looks more like a delaying action , a ‘technicality’ of the law.. sad ..
We need to smack this crapoliticque down once and for all.
“Can you believe that 35 year old cars still have to be smogged there ? Everything from 1976+. That is just nuts.”
Not to sound like a troll here, but the pollution levels of the older cars are tens of times of newer cars.- and that’s for the ones that well maintained. For the ones that aren’t maintained, it’s in the hundreds. I’ve tested them, I know.
(and by the way, read my other 3000 or so posts, and you’ll see that I’m not a troll, I just happen to know where the bang for the buck is on pollution control)
C’mon BobL... Think just a little bit about how many fewer miles and how many fewer in number they are than those newer models being driven twice daily and twice as far in the commuting hoards of today. A little commonsense goes a long way in this discussion!!!
“C’mon BobL... Think just a little bit about how many fewer miles and how many fewer in number they are than those newer models being driven twice daily and twice as far in the commuting hoards of today. A little commonsense goes a long way in this discussion!!!”
I hear you. But that was one of the biggest problems in California over the decades. The AQMD and others knew full well that old cars were causing at least half of the pollution (back then), even though they were, at most, 10% of the cars.
But they had a problem: The demands of SOCIAL JUSTICE required that the people driving these cars (i.e., the lower classes) be left along, so they went after everything else they could think of - newer cars, trucks, and shutting down “point sources”, as they call them (factories, as the rest of us call them).
But in the end, the old cars simply would not go away, people loved the fact that they could drive them with impunity and they don’t rust. So they stayed on the road, exempt from inspection...and a new model year, every year, earned that distinction. They finally had enough (about 10 years ago) and got rid of the 25 year exemption and simply said 1976 and newer will ALWAYS be inspected.
I know I sound leftist, but if you want clean air, it makes a LOT MORE sense to get these cars off the road, rather than shutting down what remains of productive employment.
Just a little bump in the road — but nothing drastic enough to be cause for celebration.
(I don’t get all the cheering on here. Too bad the articles don’t cover the whole story)
Anyway, here is the judge’s opinion:
http://cdn.law.ucla.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Environmental%20Law/AIR%20v%20ARB%20Tentative%20Ruling.pdf
AB32 is alive and well. :-(
nice “work” if you can get it
Really. You know, it would be one thing if these bureaucrats were drawing that kind of salary ensconced at a Ritz-Carlton hotel somewhere, stuffing their faces and consuming booze at a ticket of even $20K a month, effectively doubling their salaries in terms of taxpayer drain.
No, instead, they are fervently making new law with overt zeal towards “preserving the environment” and covert dedication to throttling business opportunity across the state. Hence, their actual cost is easily in the billions in terms of economic damage they inflict.
Imagine, if you can, the cost of literally either adding a $15K-$20K “sock” onto the exhaust stack of all existing diesels or simply replacing the engines altogether. Count in there hundreds and hundreds of hospital and industrial emergency backup generator sets that probably run for 1/2 hour once or twice a year on a test basis. Big stuff.
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