You forgot the part about boiling up a fresh batch of tar and collecting chicken feathers.
Posted on 04/10/2008 5:29:27 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
California will establish a high-profile, $600 million research center to devise solutions for global warming, the Public Utilities Commission decided in a 5-0 vote Thursday.
The California Institute for Climate Solutions will have a $60 million budget each year for 10 years. The money will come from ratepayers of the state's major utilities, including Pacific Gas & Electric, which serves much of Northern California.
The new institute, which will seek matching funds to expand its reach, will administer research grants; work to transfer technologies to commercial businesses; and develop a related workforce for these companies.
Undecided is where the new institute will be located, although it will be administered by the University of California system. The Institute will be run by a governing board with the PUC president and the UC president as its co-chairs.
"Innovation - technological and otherwise - is the key to alleviating the adverse consequences of climate change," PUC President Michael Peevey said.
Jennifer Ward, spokeswoman for the University of California's Office of the President, said the institute "will play a critical role in helping California combat and reduce the effects of climate change. It can serve as an important resource for state policy makers, the private sector, and the general public."
Peevey said it's wrong for ratepayers alone to pay for the new institute.
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Of course not, because the solution is a political one. Transfer wealth.
We don't need no steenkin' facts.
Trouble is, when it's a government agency controlling the purse strings, there's an irresistible urge to meddle. I have no doubt that only the politically-correct, fashionable lines of inquiry will be pursued, lest the masters be displeased.
the hot air this will generate will take 1000 years to control
These dumb-arses would not complain if 98% of their income was taken. Why do they do this? Because nobody will stand up to it. I'm all for a doubling of this cost - why not triple it? These dummies won't mind. I have to travel to San Fran-sicko twice a year for 3-4 days. I see these idiots stting in all of these starbuck-types reading that horrible newspaper like it was all truth. Sickos - all of them.
Considering that this will be a state run outfit filled with state employees, do you actually expect them to develop anything other than every increasing budget requests?
I’ve never seen on of those in Celsius.
on=one
$600 million would sure put up alot of solar panels on houses in the state. I bet the government could get a heckuva price on them too.
That would do a heckuiva lot more good than their damn Institute for Climate Solutions. Oh wait, if people had solar homes they wouldn’t use as much electricity and PG&E would collect alot less money.
Nevermind.
If an actual useful innovation comes out of this, that'll be a bonus.
You forgot the part about boiling up a fresh batch of tar and collecting chicken feathers.
As soon as the poverts begin to whine about having to choose between power and food the government will set up a system to help pay the utility bills inflated by the government's "greening." This sh*t has no end, does it.
Al Gore could have taught Hitler and Goebbels a thing or two about “Big Lie” technique.
“Isn’t California having major budgeting problems?”
Priorities, man! Priorities!
Irony of ironies. Arnold got voted in to replace Davis, who emptied ratepayers’ wallets and the state coffers to make Enron, et al, rich from a manufactured energy crisis. Arnold won on not being a career politician and on being independently wealthy and immune to bribes and dirty politics. He was going to root out and eliminate all the waste in Sacramento. HA! Now PG&E is going to rape the ratepayers once again. Ratepayer, taxpayer, it all boils down to us, the suckers. Obama reminds me of Arnold with his “I’m a political outsider, you can TRUST me.” HA! HA!
isn’t this “Government Establishing a Religion”?? since it is a theory based on faulty science that requires a leap of faith to prove, It is by definition a RELIGION. Where is the ACLU??
looks like I am moving to Arizona sooner than I thought.
eyeamok
This is appalling. With a vote of only 5 people, they can raise rates to fund whatever nonsense they want. It’s no wonder that people are leaving. How often does the PUC do this, ie. raise rates to expand government?
Don't forget the tar and feathers
They had better get it built before the ground gets too frozen to dig a place for the foundation.
Ten to one they recommend tax increases in a variety of areas.
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