Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/22/2008 11:36:01 AM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit. The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. The agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, will be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules will take effect July 1.
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It’s one of the things you have to like about the idea of “laboratories of democracy” - where different jurisdictions can try out different wacky ideas, and then fail, and then (we can hope) bear the costs of their failure.
I hope the 8@$t@rd$ starve and freeze in the dark.
Is there actually an oil refinery in the Bay Area, or is the liberals who are smoking something again?
Is there actually an oil refinery in the Bay Area, or is the liberals who are smoking something again?
Yes, a large Chevron refinery across the bay at Pt Richmond.
It’s only a matter of time before they charge a dollar for each fart emission!
Businesses that can leave will leave and take jobs with them. Those that can’t will increase prices and pass the tax on to consumers.
They should just build an asylum around the whole place.
That will be the death knell for any Bay area chili cookoffs.
But at $1.00 a pop that could fund the Frisco Area Rapid Transit.
One word:
Texas.
No BS. Make money fast.
Ha!! This won’t do beans to cool off the globe but it sure will ice their economy.
It’s already working!
I hear temperatures haven’t been working for some time.
There are actually quite a few oil refineries in the bay area. San Francisco wants to be the first in the nation to hit $6 a gallon gas.
It’s a lemming thing.
Actually, there are several. Chevron in Point Richmond, Shell and (name??) in Martinez, Valero in Benicia.
And these rules by the new fascists will further drive up the cost of gas. And push more businesses and people to leave the area.
Several months later Celeste was scratching his head wondering why there wasn't one new company formed in the state since the bill passed. Well, duh...To his credit, he removed the bill when he finally figured out what had happened.
SF is going to see the same thing happen...it's just a matter of time.
Just watch their rates soar!
Idiots!
Well, there should soon be a lot of vacancies in San Fran, as businesses move out.
In the North Bay/Carquinez Strait/Delta, all the big companies have at least one. They’re north and east of Oakland wear tankers have deep water access.
Companies don’t pay fees or fines, their customers do.
Ah, it goes back to charging more fees!! What business-friendly environment, eh?
“It’s only a matter of time before they charge a dollar for each fart emission!”
LOL!! Oh yay, the Fart Police - sign me up/NOT! Hey, perfect job for a Democrat!
“That will be the death knell for any Bay area chili cookoffs.
But at $1.00 a pop that could fund the Frisco Area Rapid Transit.”
This may be the start of a new trend of democratic fundraisers. The could hold a “FART OFF” - probably would sound a lot like the halls of Congress.
I wonder if these morons realize that probably the single most important “heat trapping gas” is water vapor. I assume they will also charge a fee to all the municipal run water and wastewater treatment plants to compensate the Earth for all the water vapor they are carelessly throwing off. Oh, and bill the Pacific ocean too.
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Why the heck to people continue to live in that cess pool?
“Actually, I think my wife would be pretty darned good at that job.”
I really don’t know who to feel sorry for in your house,,,,...?
Personaly I’m glad they did this. In fact I hope they charge even more, and drive that worthless POS city into the dirt!!
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