[FairOpinion]

This is insanity. The CA Dems went off the deep end: they want to take CA literally back to the stone ages: they don't want to drill off shore, they want to tax oil drilled in CA, they don't want to build nuclear powerplants, now they don't want to buy energy generated using coal.

Why don't they just declare that they are shutting down all industry in the state and people can start to become hunters and gatherers, except they are opposed to hunting too.

[the invisib1e hand]

california is outcalifornia-ing itself.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

...now moves to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is expected to sign it

Ball's in your court, FO.

[oceanview]

hey, the people voted for this. and before you say anything - I live in NY, and the whacko voters here would support the same measures that CA is putting in place - we are just a few years behind.

I live on long island - they are fighting to stop windmills from being put - 6 miles out in the ocean.

[CedarDave]

They dont want power from coal powered plants? More for the rest of us!

[capt. norm]

Wonder how long it will take them to realize that they're about to ruin their economy and lose businesses hand over fist.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Does this mean they are going to build anymore nuclear power plants?

[Dinsdale]

Power is fungible. This sounds good to children but means nothing.

[Moral Hazard]

"they want to take CA literally back to the stone ages"

I didn't think time travel had been invented.

[Paleo Conservative]

they don't want to drill off shore, they want to tax oil drilled in CA, they don't want to build nuclear powerplants, now they don't want to buy energy generated using coal.

You forgot to mention that they are also opposed to hydroelectric power and want to breach existing dams so salmon can have an easier time swimming back to where they were spawned in order to lay and fertilize their eggs.

[bmwcyle]

Buy power company stock on the companies out of CA that provide power to these fools. I am.

[marron]

Sadly, in California, it isn't just coal-fired power plants. Its beyond tough to permit any kind of power plant.

You can't build generating plants, they organize to shut down existing plants, and when black-outs and brown-outs inevitably come, they think its a conspiracy.

Seriously.

[MaDeuce]

This is good news. More and cheaper electricity for the rest of us.
I can't wait for the brown/black out to occur in the next year or so due to power shortages ... and the resulting riots.

Time to move the FR home base out of commie-fornia ... like to Navada.

[Shermy]

""The bill, passed previously by the state Assembly, now moves to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is expected to sign it.""

Deal was sealed when Arnold met Tony Blair at British Petroleum offices...I suspect. It's a natural gas industry payoff.

[crazyhorse691]

Just great. I foresee the I-5 corridor being bumper to bumper for years now; the northbound fleeing a dieing state...and the southbound rushing to the socialist promised land.

[AmeriBrit]

Just what the h*ll is their object. This is absolute insanity.

If the state legislators want all businesses and citizens to move out of the state why don't they just be honest and come out and say it? The way they're going, the exodus from NOLA during Katrina will be nothing. They might just as well make all the freeways one-way heading east now.

[Amerigomag]

Another increase in taxes by our liberal governance if the legislation is booked.

[Solitar]

California will thus leave more for the rest of us -- for 250 years. Coal keeps US economy burning

And since California likely will do the same regarding nuclear power, that too leaves more for the rest for us.

Let southern Californians cook to death in the dark.

Let northern Californians freeze to death in the dark.

[goldstategop]

Higher prices and energy shortages... great deal, eh Arnold?

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[thackney]

U.S. Electric Power Industry Net Generation, 2004

Net Generation from Coal by State by Sector

[DocRock]

"Why don't they just declare that they are shutting down all industry in the state and people can start to become hunters and gatherers, except they are opposed to hunting too."

I guess because some parts of California have outlawed the use of fireplaces. You can't cook the meat. Sushi anyone?