Simon Urges Davis to Decide on Auto Exhaust Legislation (AB 1058)

Simon for Governor Web Site ^ | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 | Simon for Governor

[ElkGroveDan]

Simon Urges Davis to Decide on
Auto Exhaust Legislation

Says AB 1058 is Another Example of Social Engineering
and Should be Vetoed if it Reaches the Governor's Desk

San Francisco-Gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon today called on Governor Davis to express his position on a bill to regulate restrictions on auto tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, saying the proposed legislation relies on controversial science and would unfairly restrict the freedom of California consumers.

Simon said the legislation, AB 1058 by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, is flawed because of questionable environmental benefits and if signed into law would delegate rule making to political appointees and state bureaucrats.

"I'm asking the governor to reject the concept and the logic of this bill because its real purpose appears to be social engineering and yet another attempt to force people out of their cars and into public transportation.

"This is an opportunity for Gray Davis to provide leadership and let the public know how he feels about this legislation," Simon said.

AB 1058, now awaiting final passage by the Assembly, would have the California Air Resources Board develop regulations by 2005 to reduce greenhouse gases from motor vehicles.

"This legislation is a thinly veiled attempt to regulate the kind of vehicles Californians are allowed to drive," said Simon. "The state should not have broad power to impose sweeping regulations on auto emissions based on controversial scientific evidence."

Coalition groups that include taxpayer rights, organized labor, large and small business and agriculture interests are opposing the Pavley bill as an attack on consumer freedom.

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BILL SIMON FOR GOVERNOR
770 L Street, Suite 950
Sacramento, CA 95827

Website: http://www.SimonForGovernor.Com

[BornOnTheFourth]

A get-your-dirty-paws-off-of-my-SUV BUMP!

[ElkGroveDan]

A 15MPG 4WD PICKUP BUMP coming back at you.

(and a little oil burning lawnmower NUDGE while we're at it)

[BornOnTheFourth]

You get 15 MPG??? I'm JEALOUS!

LOL...

[ElkGroveDan]

I changed the blade on the mower Monday night and I guess I had it on its side too long. When I pulled that starter cord it began a-smokin' and a-belchin' something fierce. I got kinda misty-eyed as memories of my youth came flooding back -- memories of a time when half the cars and all the lawn mowers smelled like that. It kept it up for darn near fifteen minutes!

[Calvin Locke]

Waay back, I used to watch 60Minutes. They had a piece on a scientist who proposed placing laser-based
spectrometers on the major thoroughfares. It could detect the really obnoxious polluters. The idea, (which
I'm now sure would be perverted to the umpteeth degree) was to give the offender a summons to have the car
inspected within 30 days. More than enough time to get the thing fixed. I can't remember the bad car emissions
as a percentage of the problem, but fixing said cars gave the biggest bang for the buck.

But, as Limbaugh constantly points out, solving problems is not the point of [big] government.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I don't know if it will be publicized, but this is a great stance for Simon. Get gray doofus in the corner with the green libs by signing this horrible bill, or let him betray them by vetoing it. He he!!

[Robert357]

I can just see the action in Davis office. Quick get the poll numbers on which way I should decide on AB1058, no, no wait get me the lobbiests, we will see who wins a bidding war...(or did I mean bribing war?).

[sheik yerbouty]

Why does Red Doofus look like ET?

[gwynapnudd]

A get-your-dirty-paws-off-of-my-SUV

No problemo. Toyota will market a hydrogen SUV next year.

Toyota Hydrogen SUV Announcement

PSST - Buy Toyota Stock!

[Gophack]

A mini-van mom-o-bile BUMP for my man Bill Simon! Wa Hoooo!

[NormsRevenge]

DUMP DAVI$



GO SIMON

[BornOnTheFourth]

Actually, that can be cool. As long as it's not one of those small wanna-be SUVs. My Jeep Grand Cherokee is too small and will be replaced by a Tahoe when it breathes its last...

[Frohickey]

Major automakers have been developing fuel cell vehicles, but a high price has kept the cars out of showrooms. Toyota's version will cost about 10 million yen ($75,000), making the target customer large corporations and the government.

The launch will initially be limited to Tokyo because hydrogen refuelling stations are being set up in the capital. The top speed of the FCVH-4, which stands for "fuel cell hybrid vehicle,'' is 150 kilometres an hour and it has a cruising range of more than 250 kms. The car is modelled after Toyota's Kluger V sport-utility vehicle, which is marketed in North America as the Highlander..

$75K!!!! For an SUV?!!! Marketted at government and corporations?!!! Any corporation that outfits their fleet with this $75K monstrosity deserves to have their corporate fleet officer tarred and feathered and have the shareholders up in arms and demanding blood. Any government that buys these things better make sure that it can stop an anti-tank round and can accomodate a 50BMG gun and a 155MM smoothbore cannon.

Top speed of 93MPH and a range of 155miles per fill-up?!!! Someone is getting robbed here.

[Frohickey]

One thing that is never mentioned in these zero-emissions vehicles is that it is not truly zero-emissions. The emissions are just pushed up to the beginning of the energy generation chain.

In electric vehicles, its put up to the power generation plant, which could be coal-fired, natural gas, nuclear or hydroelectric. (solar, wind, geothermal and tidal are a very small portion of energy production) Plus, you have losses in transporting energy from one location to another location.

In hydrogren fuel-cells, its in the generation of the hydrogren gas. Hydrogen link says that hydrogen is prepared by
1) steam on heated carbon
2) decomposition of certain hydrocarbons with heat
3) action of sodium or potassium hydroxide on aluminum
4) electrolysis of water
5) displacement from acids by certain metals.

You can bet that all of these methods of generating hydrogen is done through the conventional means of generating energy detailed above.

[gwynapnudd]

"The Hydrogen Fuel cell is a developing technology that will allow great amounts of electrical power to be obtained using a source of hyrogen gas. Consideration is being given to an entire economy based on solar- and nuclear-generated hydrogen. Public acceptance, high capital investment, and the high cost of hydrogen with respect to today's fuels are but a few of the problems facing such an economy. Located in remote regions, power plants would electrolyze seawater; the hydrogen produced would travel to distant cities by pipelines. Pollution-free hydrogen could replace natural gas, gasoline, etc., and could serve as a reducing agent in metallurgy, chemical processing, refining, etc. It could also be used to convert trash into methane and ethylene. "

I guess this means the rivers of BC and Alaska will all be used to generate hydro electricity and ship it out as hydrogen. Very interesting!

[gwynapnudd]

$75K!!!! For an SUV?!!! Marketted at government and corporations?!!!

You know there are already massive tax credit schemes in the works that will reduce the cost of purchase to less than a conventional vehicle. Uncle Sugar is gonna pick up the tab for the development of alternative energy.

[BJungNan]

We have the cleanest air of any major industrialized developed and developing countries. Take a trip to Europe or Asia and the difference in air quality will hit you hard.

Americans have been fed a line of bull that we have the dirtiest air and are the largest polluter. Ha. Hop on a plane overseas and put that myth to rest.

The only way I would ever support this bill is if every rep in Sacramento agreed to take public transportation and gave up their fleet of limos and Town Cars. Fat chance.

It is the same result as communism. You end up with a ruling political elite with all the perks and privledge while the masses line up at trolly stations and to get bread.