Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/17/2010 6:31:45 PM PST by raptor22
California often leads the nation, especially in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The act of leading is one thing, however. Leadership's outcome is another matter entirely.
On Friday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the bureaucracy charged with implementing AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, adopted a cap-and-trade scheme to reduce California's greenhouse gas emissions by about 15% by 2020. CARB's regulations go into effect in 2012.
The unelected officials at CARB intend to reorder California's use of energy. In so doing they blandly declaim that their rules will create jobs while admitting to higher energy costs and a slowing economy. Somehow, this formula is transmogrified by CARB analysts into net job creation.
Given the immutable laws of math, one is forced to calculate that CARB's actions will "create" low-paying jobs at the expense of good jobs.
Beyond CARB's soothing words, what will Californians, one-eighth of America, likely experience on a practical level?
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Good luck to you! OR is pretty liberal as I understand it, but not all of it.
Dammit, we in Nevada are going to feel the cold shadow of Kalifornia at OUR pumps too.
I think all of our fuel is refined there.
We do have one small refinery in Nevada, perhaps this will become the impetus for it to grow?
Bingo!
As I’ve said for years, California is doomed. Some here will scream “stay and fight” because they like the sun and the beaches and dry summers. Not me. The day I retire 10 years from now, I’m out of this Communist infested bunghole bankrupt state. Let it burn.
This is the guy who could have beat Barbara Boxer. But California Republicans decided a moderate could beat her better than a solid conservative. So they are cursed again with Boxer in Washington.
Go figure.
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You are about to get hit with Cape Wind which will sell you feel good electrons at 20 cents per kWh with 3.8% annual escalation. I would say TGI live in Virginia where my wholesale electricity is about 8 cents, but the stupid stupid town near me just signed a contract with some scam artists to buy "solar" power at 12 cents with 2.5% escalation. Then since that stupid town got them into the grid, my power company will be forced to buy the same feel good expensive power.
Good luck, we are all going to need it.
In practice, British Columbia, through its government-owned utility BC Power, has been scamming California consumers. BC Power, hit with a fine for its role in California's Enron-era electricity scandal, has been selling "green" hydropower to California for years.
Then, in an act of electron-laundering, has backfilled its electricity deficit with coal-fired power from Washington state and Alberta. This lets Californians feel good about their electricity while netting Canadians a healthy profit.
A politically correct electron can be worth multiples of a politically incorrect electron. Given that electrons are extremely fungible, that is a recipe for corruption. With the potential for corruption comes the corrupt. Around here our "solar" power plant is being built by a convicted drug dealer.
BOHICA...!!!
How can we mount a rescue mission for Jim Rob?
(Jim, how long do you think you can hold out before relocating, hint, hint, beg, plead, wheedle, whine?)
Cheers!
Cheers!
I was in San Diego for boot camp in ‘62. It was gorgeous then, about ten years ago I met someone who moved from South Carolina to San Diego because he liked it so much when he went to boot camp about the same time I did. He had sold his home out there for a fortune in profits and moved back here and bought a business. Apparently he had impeccable timing.
I hope you can make it ten years, that must look like a long stretch right now.
The unelected officials at CARB = City of Bell Officials
“The day I retire 10 years from now, I’m out..”
You may be “lucky” in a twisted way. If you have to be in CA due to your work, there is *some* possibility, however thin it may be, that things will turn around here. Who knows? Nobody can predict the future.
I am closer to retirement age, so I don’t wish to stay here and thrash it out, all the time remembering what a paradise CA used to be.
He'll need it. Oregon is crawling with illegals...and not just the government likes them in Oregon, but half the people do to...The media up there literally kisses their butts...
Last time I was in Oregon, we stayed at a hotel where Spanish speakers were drinking till 3 in the morning in the parking lots, blasting their grating Mexican music...We assumed they were all illegals, as none of them spoke English.
“Off to Medford, Ore.”
We made the move from Marin county in 1996 and have never
looked back. Best decision we ever made..Loving it in
Grants Pass, the town with class.
Cape Wind sucks.
This whole state sucks.
My town has it’s own power company so i’m hoping the huge new rate hike for free renuable electricity doesn’t affect me.
Prbably will though....
CARB has given a one year warning to businesses to leave before 1-1-2-12.
The moving companies are going to be busy.
CARB has given a one year warning to businesses to leave before 1-1-2012
The moving companies are going to be busy.
Every good and bad aspect of life has its pace. We’re not children. We know patience. You put one foot in front of the other, soldier on, and you wait for your time.
Waiting the 10 years is not my biggest problem. My biggest problem is that I can’t seem to be happy knowing that my state and my nation is plunging into hard socialism that will leave future generations of American’s oppressed.
You know, if California was going to hell and the rest of the USA was becoming more free and less regulated, then I could be genuinely happy, even as I wait to leave. I would be waiting knowing that the rest of the nation is becoming more free and fair for future generations. It absolutely sickens me to think that I can’t get my fellow voters to stop shooting holes in the bottom of my lifeboat, because as the USA goes down, I have no place left to go.
I can leave California for a more free and fair state. I can’t leave the USA. I am stuck with her as she plunges toward socialism.
But yes, the wait seems long. I equate it to being in 3rd grade, which is the same wait to high school graduation as I have to retirement.
Time passes like nothing. When I am done and living in a new home in Virginia, it will seem like it all passed in the blink of an eye.
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