Posted on 06/28/2019 2:08:32 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Oregon accounts for a tiny slice — 0.14 percent — of global emissions. A forecast from the state’s legislative revenue office predicted the measure would force a 23-cent-a-gallon hike by 2021 and more increases in the years that follow. By 2050, the forecast said, Oregon residents would be paying 3 additional dollars a gallon.
Oregon, like the rest of the nation, has long been divided along urban and rural lines. But those divisions have deepened significantly in recent decades. Portland and other metropolitan areas have expanded and their residents have become increasingly Democratic, while Oregon’s rural areas have struggled to retain residents and have become more Republican.
In the last half century, money, jobs and political power have flowed to the Portland area, which has grown to the point where it makes up 60 percent of the state’s population. At the same time, rural Oregon, centered around agriculture and timber cutting, has struggled.
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on Tuesday, with the Republicans still missing, Democratic leaders stunned many by announcing that they did not believe that their own party had the votes to pass the bill. Amid all the chaos, Democratic support had eroded, they indicated, urging the Republicans to come back and vote on other matters, like budget bills and a paid family leave measure.
Climate activists huddled in the Senate lobby, reeling from the news.
“My fear is that this isn’t just about climate change,” said Summer Dean, 22, a recent graduate from Portland State University, who had been lobbying for the bill for three years. “This is about a fault in our democracy that could spread in other states as well.”
State Representative Shelly Boshart Davis, a first-term Republican, said the walkout “truly was more than just cap-and-trade.”
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It’s a trap.
Thank the WISCONSIN DEMOCRATS, who discovered the "fault" in 2011.
The residents of Oregon east of the Cascades should begin the necessary steps to separate from Oregon and merge into Idaho. Eastern Washington should do the same thing.
Certain parts of Idaho, anyway.
I’m torn on this. On the one hand, I want the measure to pass. Let Oregon screw itself. Maybe affected industries will move here. Then The People will see what the politicians have done to them and vote them out.
And then I don’t have another hand.
My ultra-liberal friends in Oregon have gone quiet over this. Subarus don’t get great gas mileage.
Idiot child of hippies, no doubt.............Who names their kid 'Summer'?..................
Admiral Akbar agrees.
I went to high school a girl named Summer long before the hippy’s kids were old enough to be there.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Stopped reading mid-way through the first sentence: “Oregon accounts for a tiny slice — 0.14 percent — of global emissions. “. I’m fascinated how such a precise number was derived. Seems a bit made up to keep the dialog going. As they say, 72.47198376 percent of statistics are made up on the spot.
Republican in Oregon won’t come back until after sine di on the 30th
Oregon ping
Texas Democrats did it to prevent their partisan redistricting in 2003.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Eleven
Destroying a state over a hoax will really magnify their pain down the road.
#FakeScience
Led over a cliff by a child. Pathetic!
“But are they just saying that to get the GOP to return, when the Democrats will try to push the bill through? “
that’s exactly what the Pubs have said they are worried about ... they want some kind of deal in writing signed, sealed and delivered before they come back to finish the session ...
Just 23 cents????!!!
We’re facing 45 cents here in Michigan. Stop whining Oregon.
Absolutely. And asap.
Not whining, but we are winning! Looks like we killed the bill, and it was a bipartisan effort. If we can do it, you can do it.
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