Posted on 02/20/2022 6:57:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A leading environmental lawmaker from Torrance has proposed a bill that would create a state fund to support and retrain thousands of oil industry workers as California tries to phase out fossil fuel production.
The idea of guiding California’s 112,000 oil industry workers out of their current field and into other careers is often referred to as “just transition,” and is considered by policy researchers a necessary step to counter job losses as the state strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But even with a Democratic supermajority in the state Legislature, such a proposal faces an uphill battle because it’s pitting unions against unions.
Community and environmental groups say the state should start moving half the industry’s workforce out of oil fields, refineries and plants now in order to meet California’s goal of cutting 40% greenhouse gas emission by 2030. But a union that represents a portion of these workers has opposed such efforts in the past.
It’s not clear where Gov. Gavin Newsom stands.
Newsom’s 2022 budget proposal allocates $50 million to support displaced oil and gas workers – a fraction of what labor wants – and adds $450 million to a Community Economic Resilience Fund, which was set up using federal stimulus money to help communities recover from the pandemic.
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Can’t the all make electric cars and solar panels?
Oh wait, the panels are made cheaper in China and car building is pretty much done with robots.
The earth is a marvelous machine in addition to being our Home. The intense heat and pressures from the Core and the Mantle is what produces natural gas and hydrocarbons. This is GOD’s work. Also, an inconvenient truth, Al, is that CO2 is plant food. Without it, we DIE (and this does include Klaus, George, Trudeau, Obama, the #JihadJunta and all the rest of the “so much more equal” than you or me…)
Send ‘em to Texas. I suspect they’ll find jobs and pay less taxes too boot.
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I would suggest using them to build power plants to charge the soon-to-be-mandated electric vehicles. Unfortunately, there are no acceptable types of actual power plants to build.
Gee, it's sure a surprise when some Marxists come for other Marxists, it's never happened before in all the history of Marxism.
Make sure this clown never sets foot in a petroleum powered vehicle.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
I don’t think these morons realize just how much of their daily lives depends on the oil and gas industry. Everything. The transmission lines for their beloved electricity, the carbon fiber for their beloved windmills. The cell phone they use. The gimp suit their special uncle uses.
Flashback - Biden to oil and gas industry workers: Learn to code
Jazz Shaw Jul 29, 2020 4:31 PM ET
Now that Joe Biden has emerged from his basement and finally taken some questions from reporters, it almost feels as if we’re getting back into more of a “normal” presidential election cycle, at least for a moment. (Or as close as anything gets to normal these days, anyway.) The questions Uncle Joe took this week were primarily softballs, of course, but it reminded me of the heated days during the primary when reporters were actually asking him and the rest of the candidates about serious policy issues.
Today, let’s take a look back at when such inquiries were taking place on a semi-regular basis. I was reminded this morning of one Q&A session back in February when a student at a CNN town hall for Biden and several other Democratic candidates had the temerity to ask Joe about his massive, liberal green energy plans that would essentially wipe out the entire fossil fuel industry in the United States. The student quoted Biden back to himself, reminding him that he had said workers in the oil and gas industry should learn to code. Here’s that video clip courtesy of the RNC Research YouTube feed.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2020/07/29/flashback-biden-oil-gas-industry-workers-learn-code-n346454
Oil will still be the dominant power source long after anyone reading this is dead and gone. Instead of saying just transition the motto should be just move. Oil is over $90 a barrel and the fields of Texas and North Dakota are opening back up, there will be a lot of money to be made by experienced oilfield workers over the next few years.
Learn to code.
"I learned to code!"
"Sorry, we're only hiring cheap H1Bs that Xiden just imported."
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
only hiring cheap H1Bs
and scammers from India
You forgot...
Oils that lubricate all your machines.
Plastics that are in almost EVERYTHING.
Most of the clothing hanging in heir closets (polyester).
Many shampoos, toothpastes, lipsticks, candles (parrafin waxes).
Aspirin, perfumes, shaving cream, and many other things have some petroleum product built in..
Yeah. I left a lot of things out. I remember a spoof commercial from the 80s or 90s that had a housewife complaining about plastics or petroleum or some sort. So the announcer says let’s get rid of them, and things start to go wrong in the house (water leaks from no gaskets, fires for the same reason, I think the husband crashed through the wall in his car for lack of brakes, etc. We really need to attack these morons with things like this.
Has Central Planning ever worked?
Absocottonpickinlutely not!
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