Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/16/2010 9:33:15 PM PST by SmithL
The California Air Resources Board on Thursday approved the creation of the nation's first broad-based program to put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions and to begin charging large emitters for the excess carbon dioxide they put in the air.
After an all-day meeting, the board voted 9-1 for the proposal, which will take effect beginning in 2012 and means California is once again moving forward with climate change policy while efforts on the national level have stopped.
"The comment 'the world is watching' is sometimes an idle comment. It's not idle this afternoon," said Air Resources Board member Ronald Loveridge.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
More jobs down the tube, will the frickin’ idiots never learn?
IDIOTS
Californians, yall better wake up, the state has just decided to tax the air you breathe!
Watching CARB in action is like watching the Mad Hatters Tea Party. They have a death wish for business in CA.
California.
LMAO!!!
And Californians wonder why their state is going broke and people are abandoning the “Golden State” by the boatload.
Will the last person to leave California please turn out the lights??
California is guaranteed to go off the cliff. It is not guaranteed a sucessful recovery after the crash.
Each state could carve it's own path.
You can move to which lifestyle you wanted.
(I predict an empty California, including illegal aliens)
Ron, the world is laughing.
A lot of us have been awake for the past 25 years. The CARB is the most dangerous bunch of people in CA apart from the Democrat-controlled Legislature (and now Governorship). But publicly arguing against what they characterize as “clean air” has been a total loser politically, and Schwarzen-Kennedy has been our worst enemy on environmental issues. Your best defense is to make sure that what happens in CA stays in CA. It has a habit of spreading nationwide.
News flash.
With a few exceptions, most other states will not pass such a job and business killer; and, will gladly take the businesses, manufacturers, and skilled workers (tax payers all) that California chooses to smash like a bug.
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The comment ‘the world is watching’ is sometimes an idle comment. It’s not idle this afternoon,”
Ron and the other liberals have obviously an inflated sense of their importance. The world is indeed watching...a not so slow motion train wreck!
That is the problem right there. These envirowhackos are dream and fantasy paddlers -they push green utopia religion...
IF I was in charge I would suggest that rather than confronting and arguing against the dream head on that instead give them the dream and hit them with the price tag... Common sense tends to prevail when citizens understand that some dreams will bankrupt them...
What is wrong with California?
Kalifornia is beyond help.
Many will predict that California’s effort to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 will fail. It will succeed beyond even their hopes. The first step will be to reduce employment to 1990 levels, and California is already well on its way to achieving that part of its goal. The state will also need to reduce population to 1990 levels, and as a recent Forbes interactive map reveals, the state is making good progress on that goal as well: http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html.
As deepening global cooling descends upon increazingly empty California, the remaining few residents will huddle together and heat themselves by buring piles of worthless California state and local government bonds in their fireplaces.
They have to believe that the federal govenment will bail them out when their economy collapses. This will be a new “crisis” comparable to the mortgage mess, and they’ll try to make it an “opportunity”. California is trying to Cloward-Piven the republic.
“Will the last person to leave California please turn out the lights??”
Not necessary. There won’t be any lights left. Electricity will be non-existent in the state by then.
What lights? power plant was closed by cap and trade!!
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