Savage had an interesting idea:
Invoice Mexico for one barrel of crude/illegal in the USA every year. I'd up the ante to once a month.
Failing that ( my idea ):
1. Establish a government-recognized program by which Greenies voluntarily stop driving, stop using refrigeration, stop using electricity, produce their own food ( w/o ANY commercial energy input) and start using only rainwater or (yuck) reclaimed "graywater".
They can wear little gold stars to let everyone know just how SPECIAL they are.
Hello, Ariana? Ariana? Buehler???
2. Build the F'ing nuclear power plants.
3. Harvest the oil shale, tar sands, and coal fields.
I took too long to post. Your ideas are better than mine.
3. Harvest the oil shale, tar sands, and coal fields."
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You missed the point.
"The draft was released as a three-day international global warming conference hosted by the commission and the California Environmental Protection Agency concluded. Commissioners are to vote on adopting the report Nov. 16." (emphasis added)
The report has nothing to do with predicting or satisfying California's future energy needs. It's about perpetuating the myth of "global warming". Building nuclear power plants or developing the abundant and available alternate fossil fuel sources, would only accelerate the effects of global warming, in the world of their twisted little minds.
Beyond their focus on the mythical global warming, the report builds upon the false premise that California's high fuel prices has anything to do with the source of California's fossil fuels. Transportation is not the primary reason for high-energy costs, it's government-induced scarcity. By not allowing development of indigenous source of fuels within the USA, including off-shore, Alaska, and nuclear power, the US government has ceded the market to off-shore providers, who of course have no qualms over acting the role of a monopoly to increase the price of their product.
"Global Warming", of course, is intended to target hurt the Western 1st world countries, in behalf of the oppressed third world. If the CA EPA and the Liberal so-called Scientific community was serious about global warming, they wouldn't exempt the developing countries (such as China, Russia, and the former Russian republics) from the proposed Kyota restrictions. If, in fact, greenhouse gases produced by man's use of fossil fuels are destroying the planet, then EVERY country needs to "conserve", and EVERY class needs to conserve. The Environmenta movement is merely reconstituted Marxists peddling "economic class warfare" and anti-"Western imperialism" using a "green" wrapper.
The "scientists" pushing Global Warming are, as their Marxist predecessors, totally non-serious, unworthy of consideration. And, they wrote this report. If the CA Governor does anything but toss it in the trash, he's also non-serious.
The entire report was an exercise of religious (albeit secular humanism) faith, not science. If California makes energy policy based on this myth, then market forces will punish California business, as both high-priced and scarce energy forces markets away from California-produced goods and services. The market-force guided economic cycle, unlike global warming, has been proven through repetition. It's a repeatable phenomenon, where as the truth about "global warming" cannot truly be known for hundreds if not thousands of years.
SFS
The headlines in my local newspaper stated that natural gas prices were subject to rising by 70% this winter.
The wood (clean-up from hurricane Katrina) I place out on the roadside for FEMA removal is being salvaged by the locals, unlike it was for hurricane Ivan.