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This is a "companion bill" to AB 32, the well-known California global warming bill. With SB 1368, California has effectively banned all oil and coal fired power plants, not only inside California, but outside as well. The bill prohibits any utility from entering into a long-term (3 or more years) financial contract for power generated by coal or oil.
1 posted on 09/30/2006 9:29:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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They considered going it with Hamster power but the danged environmentalist wouldn't hear of it.


2 posted on 09/30/2006 9:32:01 AM PDT by Fighting Irish (Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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woo hoo...more coal for us

:)


Doogle


3 posted on 09/30/2006 9:34:37 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
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Which means that most electric available to them is either Gas, HydroElectric or Nuclear.

And we already know where they stand on the Nuclear option..

Sound's like California is going to have a lot of 'brown outs' and 'Blackouts' in the not to distant future.


4 posted on 09/30/2006 9:35:22 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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That is the STUPIDEST IDEA in the world. When Californians are sweltering in their darkened homes and can't cook meals they might wake up and realize what a sham they have created.......


5 posted on 09/30/2006 9:36:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro DEAD YET?........)
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I know we have some good freepers here from Cali, but could ya'll just move out of there to say.. oh.. Colorado so we can fence off the rest of that whacked out state?

Let the jackasses have it, it's going to fall off into the ocean anyway, maybe we could get a few hundred thousand more libs to move there before it does :P


6 posted on 09/30/2006 9:37:41 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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Enviros and young people who have not learned critical thinking tend to say that any step such as building solar or wind plants is all to the good.


8 posted on 09/30/2006 9:38:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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...prohibits any utility from entering into a long-term (3 or more years) financial contract for power generated by coal or oil.

So they can deal with those nasty old polluters as long as they do it in less than three year increments? In any case this would seem to increase the cost of power to California. OK by me as long as they are willing to pay for it.

9 posted on 09/30/2006 9:38:29 AM PDT by FreePaul
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Is this an unconstitutional regulation of interstate trade which lies in the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal Congress ?


11 posted on 09/30/2006 9:43:09 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("I like to legislate. I feel I've done a lot of good." Sen. Robert Byrd)
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prohibits California utilities from buying electricity from out-of-state companies unless it was generated through measures that produce no greater greenhouse gas emissions than electricity generated from natural-gas-fired power plants.

Putting aside the stupidity of the legislation for one moment, it at least is logically consistent, in that it prevents California from exporting its fossil fuel based production to other states. In other words, they can't preen themselves over their "green" credentials while exporting pollution to neighbouring states.

12 posted on 09/30/2006 9:43:09 AM PDT by alnitak ("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
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California appears to be going out of business.


14 posted on 09/30/2006 9:44:46 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Don't worry, everything will be OK. Or maybe it won't.)
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They're gonna film the next Jackass movie in the California State Legislature.


15 posted on 09/30/2006 9:47:12 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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They should also reject all power made from coal or oil fired power plants.

Talk about NIMBY.


17 posted on 09/30/2006 9:48:22 AM PDT by art_rocks
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More power to me.

Leftists are fine so long as they aren't allowed to play with sharp objects or enact legislation.


19 posted on 09/30/2006 9:51:05 AM PDT by kenth (There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who can count, and those who can't.)
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Question: Once power is on the grid, how does one differentiate between hydro-electricity, solar-electricity, fossil fuel-electricity, wind-electricity and nuclear-electricity?

And how do you seperate it, so that you get only the type you want?

Extension cords to the appropriate power plant?

21 posted on 09/30/2006 10:02:31 AM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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"not only inside California, but outside as well."

How long does Cali expect this to last?
Now they are trying to legislate how the rest of the country acts too?

Maybe when their electric bills go up exponentially, they will get their collective heads out of you know where.


22 posted on 09/30/2006 10:03:18 AM PDT by b fair
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Great. Looks like California is going to push the price of NG right back through the roof.


23 posted on 09/30/2006 10:04:35 AM PDT by mysterio
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That's why both bills collectively amount to the California Economy Shutdown Act Of 2006. We'll get lots of regulations and get saddled with higher energy and productivity costs.

"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

25 posted on 09/30/2006 10:06:09 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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I HOPE that these California idiots REALLY enjoy blackout next summer! DO NOT BITCH to the rest of us in hope that we will feel sorry for you. You made your bed, Californians, now lie kin it!


27 posted on 09/30/2006 10:08:27 AM PDT by US Navy guy
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California reading lamp

28 posted on 09/30/2006 10:08:51 AM PDT by Bratch
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Just wait we will be called on to bail them out of the hole they are digging for themselves. Where is the Gray Davis they deserve? I've concluded that best way to attack liberalism is for Republicans to support and encourage Homeschooling and develop communities apart. Conservative populations are growing faster and will eventually overtake the left permanently in this country if we keep our kids out of public schools (the indoctrination in mediocrity and hedonism camps).
It is too bad Muslims are so radically aligned, conservative Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others who believe in a just moral reasoned society should be working together not attacking each other. We outnumber the vermin so why do we bow down to them and allow their base culture to override ours? I was listening to the radio and Savage was going on about this and he was absolutely right. The subculture is oppressing the culture ascendant, it is like the way AIDs attacks the immune system. It first takes out the ability of the body's ability to identify the disease like the left has attempted to take out the ability for us to identify right, wrong, and truth by turning the idea of Freedom into a spineless wad of mush that means whatever they define it to be.


30 posted on 09/30/2006 10:12:48 AM PDT by Maelstorm (If all ideas are equal then all are crap.)
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