Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/30/2012 4:37:09 PM PST by Kaslin
Green Politics: Golden State regulators have passed sweeping emission standards requiring one in seven new cars sold in the state in 2025 be an electric or other zero-emission vehicle. What can go wrong?
Plenty, for if we've learned anything in recent years, it's that industrial policy and telling consumers what they need and must have vs. what they want and find useful doesn't work.
Only the marketplace can accurately pick winners and losers. The government, having no competition, usually picks losers.
We have also learned that climate change is an overhyped fantasy based on ideology rather than science.
Yet the fraudulent science behind it is used to distort the economy and misallocate resources toward green energy and green products that cannot compete on their own merits. Their use must be coerced, leading to industrial and economic stagnation.
Last Friday's decision by the California Air Resources Board combines the worst of both worlds. The policy adopted unanimously by CARB mandates a 75% reduction in smog-forming pollutants by 2025 and a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
To achieve this goal, the new state policy mandates that a mix of 1.4 million zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles be on the road by 2025, nearly triple the number being driven today. Problem is, this increases the cost of these vehicles and limits consumer choices to those they don't want to make.
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Gee, CARB—why not make it a 100% reduction in greenhouse gases, and that all cars get 150 mpg?
You know,stroke of the pen,the law of the land.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh yeah, and why did you guys kill the EV-1? You know, the GM car that 15 years ago went farther than a Chevy Volt does nnow on an electric charge?
“Greenies are like watermelons; green on the outside, red on the inside, and they’re the pits!”
I like that!
Climate fraud ping
There will be. Count on it. Coercion is the lifeblood of the left.
Been a long time, took me a minute to click there. ;)
There is the salient point of this whole discussion. UNELECTED, POLITICALLY APPOINTED, just like all of the "Czars" that Comrade nObama has been setting up on a federal scale. And, before people here start whining about how this is a "left-wing" conspiracy, check your history on how this organization came into being...
You’ve gotta keep the electromagnetic field inside the electric motor. Otherwise its efficiency would fall to nothing.
I refer to them as
Gang Green.
“Gang Green.”
I’m telling you right up front, I’m going to use that!!
Feel free!
I want the “biggies” (Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc) to start using it!
Actual, unretouched photo of the folks who are pushing this regulation:
Many thanks!
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