this vehicle was seen in Little Manila village in LA?
Posted on 07/18/2015 10:19:30 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Gov. Brown Talks To KCAL9 About Bill That Would Mandate Reduction In Gas Usage
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — As Gov. Jerry Brown prepares to travel to Rome next week for an international climate conference, the debate over a bill aimed at reducing gas usage in California is heating up.
Brown fully supports SB-350, which would mandate a 50-percent cutback in California’s gas usage in the next 15 years, arguing that it’s a prime factor in global warming.
“We’ve got a serious problem here,” he told KCAL9 Political Reporter Dave Bryan via satellite. “Burning oil and gas and coal and diesel is a big part of the problem. We’ve got to find new bio-fuels. We have to be more efficient. We’ve got a lot to do. And by the way, if we do nothing, the cost is unimaginable.”
“We think this is reckless legislation and one that people certainly need to be aware of because it’ll impact every single motorist in the state of California,” Tupper Hull of the Western States Petroleum Association said via Skype.
Critics charge the bill provides no specific plan to achieve the massive cutback in gas usage. That would be left up to the California Air Resources Board, which those critics, like the oil industry say, would have no limits on what it could mandate.
The impact on Californians, they argue, could be devastating.
“What are they supposed to do to get to work? To get their kids to school?” asked Hull. “What is supposed to replace all of this gasoline and diesel that’s gonna be taken out of the system?”
“Well, of course, the people who are gonna sell 50 percent less petroleum are not only gonna have questions, they’re gonna have a fierce, unrelenting opposition. So, let’s be clear about that,” said Brown.
Cutting gas consumption in half, though, may be especially difficult in the Los Angeles area, where sitting in traffic jams is a long hated ritual and the rapid transit system is still decades away from being a truly comprehensive regional people mover, like New York or Chicago have.
While the oil industry have been leading the charge and criticizing the bill, Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, a Democrat from West Covina, was quoted in The Los Angeles Times as questioning whether an appointed board should be making the rules for cutting gas consumption, charging the bill would give them a blank check of unregulated and unlimited power over the lives of Californians.
In an interview, Brown asked in response: who do you want regulating the consumption? The oil companies?
“You saw what they did and what? Did gasoline go up 80 cents in the last week? Who’s regulating that? Well, the companies were. So, you can have a company regulate or you can have an agency of government,” Brown said, adding: “You need an authority within government to set the conditions of survivability.”
The bill appears to be well on its way to passage having already cleared the state Senate and some Assembly committees, but the debate over how to cut in half California’s dependency on gas by 2030 is possibly just beginning.
Anything that contributes to the further insanity in California by the Democrats is good for Texas.
Go Jerry!
What would the 450,000 illegal alien Gardner’s do to fill their beater Nissan Frontiers with to get to their next mowing job? Come on Moonbeam, where is the compassion?
True that. It’ll have all the functional trimmings too. Black market energy sources would pop up like mushrooms if they were to follow through with the actual intent of the legislation. And how would they propose to enforce it - CARB swat teams doing no-knock raids for unregulated gallons of gas? What I’m seeing is legislated fascism to get the state of California completely into the energy business - the legislature is punting their powers away to an agency staffed with unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who will have the flexibility to regulate and tax to bring in the maximum money they can to state coffers.
You nailed it. That’s excellent!
I am a native Californian; this is my state and I will not leave.
F#CK MOONBEAM, F#CK THE WETBACKS, F#CK THE PROG/LIB/COMMIE ASSWIPES.
And I would think that California will resemble the Cuba of today in many ways.
It’s time to break out the Unicorns to pull the wagons. What a nut job, pass a law without any way to make it work, without a large cut in the number of cars. Without water they may not have any people anyway.
“One joke is that you can have a great job, earning $100,000 a year, and you still can’t afford TO RENT a house”
Now that is correct!!
this vehicle was seen in Little Manila village in LA?
This State will not survive the Democrats, and I don’t see any relief on the horizon.
this vehicle was seen in Little Manila village in LA?
Maybe similar ones are around, but that car doesn’t have a CA license plate.
My family has been in California for five generations. I’ve dedicated fifteen years to cutting the legs out from under these thugs, not leaving.
A Sonora license plate.
Old leftys with gold plated healthcare seem to have remarkable longevity.
Carter, Soros, Castro, etc.
This will cause further Exodus from California....which is the point.
As an outsider from another state, seems to me like Brown is not the only idiot. Need to include the Legislature, activists and a whole lot of people who vote for and support this type of activity.
a 50-percent cutback in California’s gas usage in the next 15 years,”
Hell we can achieve that easy:
1. All Public Employees SHALL use only Public Transportation to and from their respective work places.
2. There SHALL be NO personal use of any means or mode of transportation for any Public Employee under ANY circumstances.
More than half the problem solved in a few minutes!
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Of course. They’re mostly democrats so that goes without saying. They’re idiots. California is the land of fruits and nuts.
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