[heleny]

On June 1, Schwarzenegger set goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. He wants emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, with intermediate benchmarks in 2010 and 2020.

The 130-page draft report by his Climate Action Team says the best way to reduce emissions is to tax gasoline as a way of cutting consumption. The revenue also would pay for methods to reduce or clean up the environmental damage caused by burning petroleum.

How about the liberal elites decide how to eliminate 50% of Californians? The roads will be wide open, so the other half will be able to drive more efficiently and therefore reduce much more than 50% of the gas consumption (and emissions).

Better yet, if 100% of people in CA were eliminated, we could achieve emissions utopia in CA.

[yankeedame]

Climate Action Team says the best way to reduce emissions is to tax gasoline as a way of cutting consumption....

Which in turn will lower the $$$$ the state collects from gasoline tax. This, in turn, will force the state to raise the existing gasoline tax and/or creat a new form of gasoline tax. This, in turn, will cause people to cut back on gasoline consumption which, in turn will lower the $$$$ the state collects from gasoline tax. This, in turn,...

And round and round it goes.