California Dreamin' 2020 (Ventura City Manager Wants California Car Culture Curbs Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 07/23/2007 | Rick Cole

[goldstategop]

HE FEEL-GOOD stage of California's leadership on global warming is unsustainable. Kudos to the pop stars with their calls to switch lightbulbs and unplug cellphone chargers when not in use. But we can't pretend that we will actually reduce 2020 greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels without tackling our region's embedded patterns of auto dependence and suburban sprawl.

"A subway to the sea" remains largely talk. Instead, nearly $1 billion is being allocated to widen a stretch of the 405 Freeway. L.A. County transit fares have been hiked again, while Caltrans and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continue to pursue the boondoggle of tunneling under South Pasadena to extend the 710 Freeway. In local City Council deliberations and planning commission hearings, business goes on as usual, with developers trying to jam as much density as possible into their projects and neighbors fighting them every step of the way.

[goldstategop]

One California lib wants Californians to give up their cars for mass transit. In the name of fighting global warming, of course. If you understand what Rick Cole said, don't. Liberals are wiser and smarter than the rest of us. Leave it up to them to eliminate global warming by 2020. That's all you need to know.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[agere_contra]

But we can't pretend that we will actually reduce 2020 greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels

Why would anyone want to do that? Anthropogenic Global Warming is a myth. Everyone on earth could set fire to an SUV in their back garden and the temperature wouldn't change.

[goldstategop]

Agreed. The notion that you can time travel to get rid of carbon gasses is silly. Its just an arbitrary date plucked out of thin air. 2020 is a decade away. Do they think they can meet the 1990 goal by then? No. That's why its a hoax.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Freedom4US]

No, but they are going to pass legislation as if it’s a done deal. Great way to tax.

[goldstategop]

Will global warming still be an obsession in 2020? Its chief promoters will be out of office well before then.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Freedom4US]

I think so - regardless of whether any climate changes are attributed to human activity - the result is the same as far since both academia, business and governments are determined to act as if it were so.

[Liberty Valance]

[EricT.]

Good luck with that.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Hmmm...maybe removing several million unlicensed illegal aliens and the cheap, polluting junkers they drive would make a bigger dent in the problem than a mass-transit solution no one wants to ride? SoCal public officials who won’t help enforce immigration laws have no one to blame but themselves if the smog is returning.

[Steely Tom]

"A subway to the sea" remains largely talk.

This idea sounds like par for the course for California.

Will it have screen doors?

[Thunder90]

The illegals and poor/”diverse” will be able to keep their cars, along with the elite Hollywood types. All others will have to turn them in.