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California's Cap-and-Trade War
Wall Street Journal ( subscription for full article ) ^ | OCTOBER 18, 2010

Posted on 10/20/2010 11:43:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

What happens when environmental fashion collides with a state's desperate need for jobs and economic growth? That question will be put to the test when Californians vote November 2 on a ballot measure that would suspend the Golden State's cap-and-trade law until its unemployment rate falls below 5.5%. Today the rate is 12.4%.

Proposition 23 is the number one national target of the green movement this election year. With the failure of cap and tax in Congress, the greens are trying to hold onto this remnant of their anticarbon crusade. Both sides are spending heavily, and the polls show a ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: capandtrade; carbontax; energy; globalwarminghoax

1 posted on 10/20/2010 11:43:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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2 posted on 10/20/2010 11:47:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Enviro-fascists are killing America. Somehow they have been duped into thinking there is some replacement for petroleum products....while the pols they support with money and votes keep killing the building of nuke electric plants and refineries.

Such fools. No foresight. No care. No sense. And no energy strategy for America except suffer at the hand of our enemies for energy.....


3 posted on 10/20/2010 11:48:14 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“That question will be put to the test when Californians vote November 2...”

When they vote?? How many things have the Cali people voted for and won hands down only to be overturned by some activist judge? Or the state gov’t simply ignores the will of the people?

Even if it is suspended, chances are it won’t be.


4 posted on 10/20/2010 11:48:35 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I will be able to spit nickles out of my butt before the Californicates can drop a 12% unemployment rate to 5%.
5 posted on 10/20/2010 11:49:01 AM PDT by mmercier (they give you this, then they take that..)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If they fail this they might as well cut to the chase and ACH their take home pay directly to Sacramento.


6 posted on 10/20/2010 11:49:13 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; WL-law; bamahead; carolinablonde; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; livius; DollyCali; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

7 posted on 10/20/2010 11:49:34 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; SunkenCiv; Paul Pierett; neverdem; I got the rope; ...

fyi


8 posted on 10/20/2010 11:50:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: EagleUSA
*Enviro-fascists are killing America. Somehow they have been duped into thinking there is some replacement for petroleum products....while the pols they support with money and votes keep killing the building of nuke electric plants and refineries.

Such fools. No foresight. No care. No sense. And no energy strategy for America except suffer at the hand of our enemies for energy.....*

What a waste of money and brainpower!

Yes, it would be very nice to develop new sources of energy, if it’s practical. You can’t just stop driving cars and shut everything down and pretend like solar is going to power everything in Northern Michigan.

The main thing that I hate seeing money time and brainpower wasted on is the fictitious man-made global warming scam.

How many times do the insiders have to confess?
How many scientific facts have to be ignored?
How many times does Toto have to pull back the curtain to reveal that the Wizard of Awg is merely a blowhard who sells snake oil in the form of misinformation speeches and thinks it’s “several million degrees” 2KM beneath the Earth’s surface?

9 posted on 10/20/2010 12:09:17 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: mmercier
*I will be able to spit nickles out of my butt before the Californicates can drop a 12% unemployment rate to 5%.*

Funny you should mention:

Governor Awhnold has announced plans to create nickel cleaning jobs for 400,000 Californians at $27,000 per year plus benefits. This will happen precisely when the clock strikes 12:00 noon on the day Kalifornia has 5% unemployment!

10 posted on 10/20/2010 12:13:14 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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California will subsume to third world status, or mexican cartel control, via the same mechanism that brought South Africa and the third reich down.

Not enough bullets, no will, no good people left.

That simple.

11 posted on 10/20/2010 12:38:22 PM PDT by mmercier (the men of steel, the men of power, loose control by the hour)
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To: PATRIOT1876
California will subsume to third world status, or mexican cartel control, via the same mechanism that brought South Africa and the third reich down.

Not enough bullets, no will, no good people left.

That simple.

12 posted on 10/20/2010 12:38:21 PM PDT by mmercier (the men of steel, the men of power, loose control by the hour)
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To: PATRIOT1876
Just posted this...and it has a surprise:

Layoffs Continue to Mount

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And we have this:

Energy Conversion Devices

Solar company Energy Conversion Devices(ENER_) announced on Aug. 11 that it plans to cut 140 jobs at its Auburn Hills, Mich., facility, shifting some of these jobs to Tiajuana.

Last year the company, which makes building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPVs, which are designed to be built into buildings in the form of shingles or windows,already eliminated 25% of its workforce last year due to dwindling demand. But many of these laid off employees have since been rehired.

Energy Conversion has been in the red over the past year.

13 posted on 10/20/2010 1:00:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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Wonder what kind of subsidies they are getting and will continue to get?


14 posted on 10/20/2010 1:02:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ...

Thanks Ernest.


15 posted on 10/20/2010 8:12:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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