Going green will cost California more green

Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/19/12 | Dan Walters

[SmithL]

The state of California has made a full-blown commitment to reducing reliance on fossil-fuel energy and other limited resources.

Utilities are required to use solar, wind and geothermal sources for a third of their electricity supply by 2020, while owners of homes and businesses are being urged to install solar panels.

The state is mandating that automakers dramatically ramp up sales of battery-powered and other low-emission cars. It is imposing new cap-and-trade emission controls on business with hefty fees.

Essentially, the state is trying to force California into an entirely new economic structure, claiming, in Gov. Jerry Brown's words, that "California is positioned perfectly to reap the economic benefits that will inevitably flow."

But what of the costs?

Those cap-and-trade fees will add tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in costs to California business. There's a feeding frenzy beginning in the Capitol over how to spend the windfall, although the Legislature's budget analyst warns that the legal options are limited.

The state's three largest utilities recently filed policy papers with the state Energy Commission about the impact of green conversion on consumers' power rates that are already among the nation's highest.

[Democrat_media]

It seems like a lot of these state and local government copy each other. But it's always to increase government power and so tyranny and to hurt the economy. Some government goons pass something like banning fast food places near schools and then others follow suit.

[RedMDer]

Tired of the disruptions?

[rockinqsranch]

From the hyperlinked article: “....But high-mileage cars have just as much impact on pavement and congestion as gas-guzzlers.......”

Perhaps the weight of the batteries, the electric motor, as well the gasoline engine add considerably to the weight factor of these Greenmobiles sufficiently to state they are more onerous than the “gas guzzlers” to our highway maintenance.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

If all goes well, I will be retired and gone from California by 2020. I’m stuck here until retirement (what idiot would quit a secure job in an economic depression that could last until 2020!). After that, I’m gone.

I don’t understand the mentality of any conservative who plans to stay in California and go down with the ship, unless your income stream is just so huge that you would be slaughtered by leaving. OK, then I could see staying. I wouldn’t. Not and face the idiot laws like bullet IDs and teaching faggotry in schools and banning plastic bags. But at least I would understand someone staying here for big bucks until retirement.

Those of you conservatives who plan to stay and retire in California, you are the ones who have me baffled. I can’t begin to fathom why you don’t plan to sell your homes for what you can get for them and move back to the USA.

I hate this communist, anti-military, anti-religion, pro-faggot, anti-family, pro-bum state. I can’t flee the People’s Democratic Republic of California fast enough.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

1968 is really about the timeframe when the nation turned the big corner on its on-going descent into hell.

[Lancey Howard]

Those cap-and-trade fees will add tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in costs to California business. There's a feeding frenzy beginning in the Capitol over how to spend the windfall..

And that, of course, is what it's all about.

Run, don't walk.
Don't be "the last white farmer in Zimbabwe".

(And last to leave, please blow out the candle.)

[Vaduz]

Agree and it’s doing so at a high rate of speed.

[Madame Dufarge]

Yep, it’s when the moonbats began their great leap forward.