California to be home to $600 million global warming research center (5-0 PUC vote)

Mercury News ^ | 4/10/08 | Matt Nauman

[calcowgirl]

“By cramming all these well-meaning proposals into electric bills, we may be creating more problems than we’re solving,” said TURN Executive Director Mark Toney.

DUH!

[calcowgirl]

Our five Governor-appointed Commissioners, as well as our staff, are dedicated to ensuring that consumers have safe, reliable utility service at reasonable rates, protecting against fraud, and promoting the health of California's economy.

Someone needs to sue them for failing to perform their sworn duties.

[LiberConservative]

$600M later they will find a solution: Beano for soil bacteria.

[pacpam]

In CA if you are below a certain income level, you won’t be affected by rate increases. Protecting the poor, you know.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That's the beauty of how this thing is financed -- they simply stick a charge on your utility bill. It doesn't come out of the state's budget and it isn't a "tax."

As a famous author once said...

O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

Or, in this case, "...that which we call a 'stinkin' pantload', By any other name would smell as fetid and rotten"

[eyedigress]

Ripley could probably profit from this as well.

[SuziQ]

Shouldn't global warming be proved before millions of dollars are committed to the solutions of a theory?

It's really gonna get interesting when the climate actually starts cooling instead of warming. I wonder what the institute will study then?

[purpleraine]

Money for stem cell, money for illegals, money for this nonsense, but basic services, education, and infrastructure, sorry, we’re fresh out.

[bt_dooftlook]

Undecided is where the new institute will be located...

Well, that's easy - tell 'em to stick where the Sun doesn't shine

[Stayfree]

Please send everything you can find on this to Rush, my car radio is not working so I don’t know if he has already discussed this...but he will discuss it if he hasn’t already!

[mowowie]

I wonder why the people who are going to pay for this nonsense didn’t get a chance to vote.

[MaxMax]

California will establish a high-profile, $600 million research center to devise solutions for global warming New Taxes,

There, fixed it. Hide your wallets.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Goldie Lurks]

California will establish a high-profile, $600 million research center then the state will finally break off from the mainland continent and fall directly into the Pacific Ocean.

[MaxMax]

LMAO, at least the lower 70%.

[Lancey Howard]

The money will come from ratepayers of the state's major utilities

Fine by me. As always, the people deserve exactly what they vote for.

[goldstategop]

Californians are forcibly mugged to pay for a hoax based on junk science.

"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

[Publius6961]

Isn't California having major budgeting problems?
What am I overlooking?

That the only ones heard at the level of the Legislature are state employees, other government employees and welfare recipients.

According to those groups, we aren't paying enough taxes.
The actual taxpayers aren't complaining. If they don't complain, they must approve.