"the freeways are filthy, the hospitals are closing, the schools are a mess and the infrastructure is collapsing. Don't talk to me about greenhouse gases, global warming or spotted owls."
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Exactly. They sure don't have their priorities straight, do they?
The only sensible person quoted in the article is the President of the CCC, who is the only one who gets it:
"But Alan Zaremberg, president of the California Chamber of Commerce, said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders should embrace a voluntary system that provides incentives to industry. An emissions cap would drive California power plants, refineries and other companies out of state, he said.
"This is a global problem and it requires a global solution," Zaremberg said. "If you shut down a facility here in California and that facility migrates somewhere else in the world, you haven't done anything to solve the problem."