Posted on 09/05/2007 6:22:00 AM PDT by bboop
No Wonder...
Published On 08-31-2007 , 2:27 PM
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s drive to reduce carbon dioxide emissions got a major boost this week when the makers of Wonder Bread announced the total withdrawal of their bread products from Southern California. Interstate Bakeries, the makers of Wonder Bread, Roman Meal, Home Pride and Baker’s Inn breads announced the closure of four bakeries, 17 distribution centers and 19 outlet stores, leaving 1,300 Californians out of work. The iconic breads – that had been staples of Southern California grocery stores since the 1940s – will completely disappear from shelves starting October 20th.
The parent company, Interstate Bakeries, blamed the high cost of doing business in California. The company has been losing money in California for some time, hit by a number of concerns including declining demand and non-union competitors, but their principal problem was simply California’s growing hostility to human enterprise.
Not mentioned by the company was this grim reality: Gov. Schwarzenegger’s AB 32 mandates a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. A principal byproduct of baking bread is – you guessed it – carbon dioxide. Indeed, without carbon dioxide, there’s no such thing as bread as we know it. Bread gets its spongy texture from yeast converting glucose into equal parts of ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. The familiar smell of bread baking is the oxidation of the ethyl alcohol as these gases are released during heating.
But not any more. No Wonder.
But, don’t trees use carbon dioxide to make oxygen? I mean, with all of those carbon offsets being purchased to plant new trees all over the place - couldn’t the bread factory just buy a bunch of offsets? Al Gore says that is a perfectly acceptable alternative. /s
Personally, I believe that all companies should just pick up and move out of the state. Then we’ll see how CA’s opinion changes about commercial enterprise.
Arnold the fool.
I knew he always wanted to go in history like Richard the Lionheart but he will not make it.
He said he had to escape to America from him homeland to reach his goals - where are our children suppose to escape to - to find freedom from Arnold’s oppressive government?
-—I do wish the oil and power companies would follow suit-—
Maybe we’ll we’ll just have to send some loaves to Arnie RINO.
I don’t mind them taking non-food items packaged as food off the shelves.
I always wondered why it was called bread.
Nasty stuff.
I agree.
Once a few major Can’t do without companies discontinue all business in California and the sheeple revolt, the regulatory morons will get the idea that they’ve gone too far.
Send loaves to Arnie — that is a darned good idea.
Californians voted for this and now they’ve got it.
Now there’s an idea.
Atlas shrugs.
That is the most important question of these times.
While it is not a company, the first thing I like to see move out of California is the U.S. Military. All of it. I know it will never be done but I still would like to see it happen. A good first start would be to shut down all recruiting offices in the state and do not recruit anyone from the state. Then sit back and listen to the whining.
Californian’s did not vote for the Kennedy family running the place.
Former R governor Pete Wilson’s wife would not have permitted that. She is the daughter of a Wonder Bread baker in Phoenix. Almost all of the candidates for president have spent their whole lives in government and can be expected to be detached from reality, too. This is a stunning cautionary tale.
LET THEM EAT TREES..................
NutterPing
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