Posted on 04/13/2006 8:54:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday sought to dispel the notion that he has backtracked from tough measures to combat global warming, saying he "can live" with capping greenhouse gas emissions by 2012.
In response to a reporter's question at UC Davis on Wednesday, Schwarzenegger characterized the 2012 caps as "a great idea" toward achieving the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 - a 25 percent cut in pollution projections from current forecasts.
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Feinstein said she favored the "cap-and-trade" approach - opposed by some businesses - in which companies that exceeded greenhouse gas reduction standards could trade their surpluses to other firms that were lagging behind. She called Schwarzenegger's statements in San Francisco "very problematic."
The governor, however, on Wednesday tried to move himself back into the forefront of the global warming fight at the conclusion of a tour at UC Davis, where he announced a $1 million grant to help the college build the nation's first energy efficiency center.
In again expressing support for meeting the 2020 reduction target, he voiced support for portions of a bill introduced by Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, and Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, that would meet the goal by first requiring mandatory reporting of emission levels, then capping them beginning in 2012.
"I have an approach to say let's carefully bring in those caps so we don't chase businesses away," Schwarzenegger said, according to a transcript of his remarks to reporters. "I think that Assemblywoman Pavley, for instance, has recommended in her bill ... 2012. I think that I can live with 2012. I think that's a great idea."
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Good luck California.
Your choices for Gub in November are a muddled mix at best, another disaster in the brewing at worst. Good luck.
Greenhouse gasses includes methane. Is Kalifornia now going to make it illegal to fart?
He'd better get those nuke plants fired up.
Nukes are evil.. yaknow.
I can't believe how tightly the GReens have wound the GUb around their middle finger and openly flash it in our faces.
The only reason we see the massive push by folks like the Gub and his backers is for their own financial and political gain.
This global warming ploy is so transparent, it is ridiculous that its adherents even get any face time much less press.
Alarmism works, even when no actual hard facts can show that what is happening is NOT a naturallt occuring event and is not the result of man's presence on this globe muhc less the result of energy sources he and she chooses to use to power our economies and civilizations.
They take snapshots over short periods of time and then run around wringing their hands and a liberal media and academia can't clap and hoot loud enough.
We now have the date of the last economic nail going into the PRK's coffin...
Maybe he's just following the Mayan calendar, I think that's the one that ends in 2012, his dictates will mean nothing anyway if the world goes poof then as a few propose. ;-)
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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