California’s Cap & Trade scheme is the equivalent to being forced to pay a fee and ride that bike. 
In a hilarious vignette that illustrates in miniature the absurd unfeasibility of the whole “green energy” scam, the Occupiers had set up a bicycle connected to a dynamo so that the computer in the media center would be powered by renewable and sustainable energy! Yeah!
Except…well, it’s really really hard to pedal day and night to keep the computer running, so the media center is in reality powered by an extension cord connected to the evil carbon-belching power grid. Note the feeble and ineffectual greenish wire running from the dynamo to the computers. Oh the shame! http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/24/is-occupy-oakland-as-bad-as-they-say/2/