H. Sterling Burnett: California loses with greenhouse law

Sacramento Bee ^ | September 16, 2006 | H. Sterling Burnett

[calcowgirl]

WASHINGTON -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's signing the first statewide, multi-industry greenhouse gas emission limits may be a calculated political move to burnish his green credentials in an attempt to get re-elected governor. Or it may symbolize his sincere belief that California should take a leadership role in reducing the threat of climate change.

But whatever his motives, the results will be higher prices for California's consumers, higher unemployment for California's workers and little or no benefit for the environment.

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While California is an economic powerhouse and these cuts are substantial, their effect on future climate will be nil. The National Center for Atmospheric Research reports that if all the signatories to the much more stringent Kyoto protocol -- which would require industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels -- meet their reduction targets, the earth will be between 0.07 degrees Celsius and 0.19 degree Celsius cooler than it would be absent Kyoto.

California's solo efforts to reduce global warming will be even less effective. California's wasted effort will, however, come with a high price tag. The regulations implementing California's climate bill have yet to be written, so no objective economic analysis of its effects are available.

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Californians face some of the highest energy bills in the nation -- which this law will only make worse. Proponents of the law argue that it will create new jobs through investments in, and the manufacturing of, new technologies. However, these gains will not be realized in California.

Any new technologies designed to meet California's needs will likely be developed and built in other states or even other countries with less oppressive business climates and lower energy costs, then shipped to California.

[calcowgirl]

H. Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis (www.ncpa.org), a conservative, free-market think tank.
Reach him at NCPA/DC, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 900, South Building, Washington, DC 20004
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[sgtbono2002]

This is great. It should prove an object lesson to other states how stupid it is to let envirowhacko's run your state.

[blackie]

I'm certainly happy I left the Golden State, when I did!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

" In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action."- A Great Historian 1888

[NormsRevenge]

The regulations implementing California's climate bill have yet to be written, so no objective economic analysis of its effects are available.

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California politicians.. Shameless,, and so far, pretty much blameless by the electorate for this kind of "governing".

How much 'pie in the sky' can I sell you today?

[Amerigomag]

The regulations implementing California's climate bill have yet to be written

And therein lies the problem. The law does not have a sunset clause.

Who will implement the law? Who will write the regulations?

This law, implemented by a Green Wienie, will have dramatic affects on industry and especially agriculture. Once the genie is out of the bottle, the prospect that California's Appellant, or the 9th Circus, will come to the rescue is scant.

[calcowgirl]

There was another great article posted today on this nonsense. Where were all these folks before this destructive legislation was passed? Up until now, all we've heard from is the NRDC, UN and Al Gore types.

California Retro (global warming)
Cato Institute ^ | September 15, 2006 | Patrick J. Michaels
Posted on 09/16/2006 10:10:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

[greasepaint]

these limits are meaningless.

either, would have happened anyway.

or, cheating, exemptions, law changes, etc

tax on jet fuel for international flight is
Zero, not one effin penny

tas on jet fuel for domestic flight, four cents a gallon.
4 cents, not 40.

[Brad from Tennessee]

What I don't get is how they expect to keep greenhouse gases and actual pollutants from blowing into California from elsewhere. It's like trying to pump the water out of the Gulf of Mexico.

[arthurus]

the prospect that California's Appellant, or the 9th Circus, will come to the rescue is scant.

The 9th Circuz, at least, will add its hammer to the wrecking operation and will mandate larger hammers.

[goldstategop]

Of course the bozos who wrote this law were thinking only of their immediate political future. The axe won't fall until 2020 and they'll be out of office before then.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BTTT!