Posted on 07/18/2015 10:19:30 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Gov. Brown Talks To KCAL9 About Bill That Would Mandate Reduction In Gas Usage
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — As Gov. Jerry Brown prepares to travel to Rome next week for an international climate conference, the debate over a bill aimed at reducing gas usage in California is heating up.
Brown fully supports SB-350, which would mandate a 50-percent cutback in California’s gas usage in the next 15 years, arguing that it’s a prime factor in global warming.
“We’ve got a serious problem here,” he told KCAL9 Political Reporter Dave Bryan via satellite. “Burning oil and gas and coal and diesel is a big part of the problem. We’ve got to find new bio-fuels. We have to be more efficient. We’ve got a lot to do. And by the way, if we do nothing, the cost is unimaginable.”
“We think this is reckless legislation and one that people certainly need to be aware of because it’ll impact every single motorist in the state of California,” Tupper Hull of the Western States Petroleum Association said via Skype.
Critics charge the bill provides no specific plan to achieve the massive cutback in gas usage. That would be left up to the California Air Resources Board, which those critics, like the oil industry say, would have no limits on what it could mandate.
The impact on Californians, they argue, could be devastating.
“What are they supposed to do to get to work? To get their kids to school?” asked Hull. “What is supposed to replace all of this gasoline and diesel that’s gonna be taken out of the system?”
“Well, of course, the people who are gonna sell 50 percent less petroleum are not only gonna have questions, they’re gonna have a fierce, unrelenting opposition. So, let’s be clear about that,” said Brown.
Cutting gas consumption in half, though, may be especially difficult in the Los Angeles area, where sitting in traffic jams is a long hated ritual and the rapid transit system is still decades away from being a truly comprehensive regional people mover, like New York or Chicago have.
While the oil industry have been leading the charge and criticizing the bill, Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, a Democrat from West Covina, was quoted in The Los Angeles Times as questioning whether an appointed board should be making the rules for cutting gas consumption, charging the bill would give them a blank check of unregulated and unlimited power over the lives of Californians.
In an interview, Brown asked in response: who do you want regulating the consumption? The oil companies?
“You saw what they did and what? Did gasoline go up 80 cents in the last week? Who’s regulating that? Well, the companies were. So, you can have a company regulate or you can have an agency of government,” Brown said, adding: “You need an authority within government to set the conditions of survivability.”
The bill appears to be well on its way to passage having already cleared the state Senate and some Assembly committees, but the debate over how to cut in half California’s dependency on gas by 2030 is possibly just beginning.
that is so true, just drive any freeway during any holiday free and clear cause the public employees are off work
Turn everything brown to force everybody to sell out cheap. Once enough have left, turn everything green and sell the land back at a huge profit.
It’s a trillion dollar con.
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>>We’ve got to find new bio-fuels.
Illegal immigrant powered rickshaws is the answer!
Globull warming and the immigrant problem: SOLVED.
RE: Flintstones car of the future -
Your witty post is one of the Many reasons for FR addiction.
Damn clever smart bunch here..
Mexicans and illegal Mexican aliens are now the majority in California.
I’m really happy that we got ourselves out of that state, and we are
hoping that we can get Bryan’s brother & family out ASAP too.
I don’t have any family there, thank God and all the Saints.
If Brown flying to Rome on one of those windmill powered airplanes? Or is he taking a row boat?
Bio-fuels only produce skittle rainbows as exhaust emissions?
I got it ethanol. Oh, wait, we need water to grow crops but don’t have any. Start pushing.
JERRY IS CERTIFIABLY CRAZY!
SO seemingly are the vast majority of Californians.
that being said... jerrys pipe drams arent going to come true regardless
What Inland Empire? You’ll be able to enjoy the scenic views of the former Inland Empire from the car on the commuter train, simply donate $5,000 to the DNC for your ticket to see what happened to the former Republican stronghold, destroyed when California instituted a per mile tax on every mile driven, charging an ever increasing tax depending upon how many miles you drove for your ‘commute.’
Drive more than 50 miles a day? The daily fine is $1 per mile for failing to drive 30 miles out of your way to the appropriate public transportation hub, purchase a ticket, and ride (mostly at taxpayer expense) to another transportation hub where you can rent a vehicle to drive the other 30 miles out of your way to actually reach your job.
But that’s okay, because your employer is being fined daily another 35 cents a mile for not being located close to a public transportation hub and is closing down their California location and moving out of state. Once you’re unemployed, you’ll be encouraged to drive 82 miles to the state unemployment center where you’ll enjoy a fun filled day learning how evil Republicans are.
They want us out of our cars and onto public transportation so the Trayvons can have easier access to us.
In a way, yes - they want to destroy any thought of a person actually being responsible for their daily life. Everything must come from Mommy government, or we might wake up and realize just how much they've embezzled from every budget.
“The guy is a complete idiot.”
As are the mindless lemmings who vote for him.
The new Mexico, even worse that the old Mexico.
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