Posted on 08/06/2006 3:55:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
the problem is, once CARB adopts something - a group of 6 other populace states in the northeast also do - and that group can essentially dictate emissions policy for the US. the administration has done nothing to reform EPA - for example, CARB and EPA are stopping high mileage clean diesel cars from being sold in the US.
Sure, if California adopts this measure Illinois will follow
as will other blue states.
Will breathing be outlawed?
Arnold lost my vote long ago. Now he is on track to lose the votes of those who believe that global warming is a crisis that must be addressed at virtually any cost as well as the votes of those who believe that global warming is baloney. Republicans should be so proud.
It looks like California didn't learn a damn thing the last time they screwed around with energy regulations and about bankrupted the state.
They should just pass a 50% "Green Weenie" tax on all income, then they can give it to the Greens to play with.
Say good bye to the remaining industrial manufactueres.
This will only kill the U.S. economy giving immense power to the Chi-coms.
Yup! Deservedly so!
He's dumb enough to sign it.
There is no problem here!!
The only thing standing in the way of getting this done are a few whistful and powerless Conservatives and the entire CA economy!!! (CARB stalls everything!)(see tagline)
You can do it Arnold. You've done little else since hijacking the historic CA Recall election!!!
I cannot find one blown-up box, or one meaningful cutting of spending!!!
I am sure he will outlaw humans next. After all, we are carbon-based life forms.
Kalifornia would be a better place!
NEW YORK, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Research Institute's Global CO2 Cap-and-Trade Forum will take place September 18 to 19, 2006 in Washington D.C. Aside from soaring temperatures, August also saw the heating up of CO2 emissions and climate policy with a meeting in California between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The meeting was, according to Terry Tamminen, Governor Schwarzenegger's Special Assistant for Energy and Environmental Policy, "incredibly important." Tamminen explains that these leaders agreed "that we can't wait for the U.S. Federal government. Getting other states to take the measurable steps, including Kyoto-like targets and the appropriate actions to achieve them, as California has done, will build a de-facto national climate policy."
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Don't kid around about this! The CA EnvironMental Communutty with their new Republican Pied Piper the Governator will not stop until the atmosphere and the "waters of the United States" are completely STERILE!!!
That is their standard and they will NOT be stopped until they have squandered all the government's money (people's taxes) to achieve that final 1% by also bringing capitalism to a grinding, screeching, crashing HALT!!!
The political hermaphrodite Governor keeps saying we can have it both ways... a "clean" (read sterile) environment AND a thriving economy. Well, even as screwed up as his policy positions are, he doesn't see things from the American Lung Association's perspective, nor the Sierra Flub's, etc., etc., etc...
On the bright side, this might fix California's illegal alien problem. No industry = no jobs = no illegals.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/06/EDGVPKBEJG1.DTL
'Green' governor needs to cool it
Jill Stewart
Sunday, August 6, 2006
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On May 31, he unveiled his global-warming plan at the U.N. World Environmental Day Conference. He has proposed a rollback in emissions of gases believed linked to global warming to 2000 levels by 2010, followed by a series of further rollbacks.
Which brings us to his proposed "Climate Action Board," which would oversee a "comprehensive emission reduction system" affecting buildings, landfills, agriculture, the energy sector and many other areas. BreAnda Northcutt, of the California EPA, tells me, "The Air Resources Board has made it clear they don't have the expertise or manpower to operate a comprehensive emissions management system." The new board would not merely push through environmental regulations. It would have the power to stop regulations that curb greenhouse gases -- if those rules hurt the economy. It would decide upon "cap and trade" provisions that give monetary incentives to low polluters (a great idea), but allow some polluters to pay to avoid sanctions (a necessity. until we figure out how to make industries cleaner).
Arnold wants Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, a Los Angeles Democrat, to amend AB32 to create his Climate Action Board. But some environmentalists are queasy, seeing the governor's idea as a possible end-run around the Air Resources Board. Do we want the governor to control this powerful new bureaucracy via an appointed body? It's true that the governor also appoints the members of the Air Resources Board, and it also serves at will. But the ARB has a long and steady history of doing its job. We know its work. Yet we don't even know who the governor will be six months from now. What if Schwarzenegger creates this powerful new body, and it immediately comes under control of "Gov. Phil Angelides"? I certainly don't want Angelides choosing the nine people who make global-warming decisions for California. He's clueless. But more importantly, because Schwarzenegger has a vision for how it should operate, shouldn't he wait until he knows whether he is re-elected the governor before he creates it?
I am sure Angelides is very happy with your attitude.
meaningful?
There has been NO reduction in spending, meaningful or other wise, since the Austrian ascended the throne. None.
The Austrian's dramatic requests for 30% spending increases are dramatically in excess of the same period, 6% inflation rate and 4% population growth. More precisely, they're about 300% in excess of the combined factors.
meaningful cutting of spending!!! ... right!
Hope you and your boy Angelidies don't plan a big celebration after the election.
You and the rest of the Angelides supporters are the ones who are trying to whip up anti-Arnold sentiments, so conservatives stay home and help Angelides get elected.
Look in the mirror and read what's on your forhead: ANGELIDES ACTIVIST -- you are not even just a supporter, you are actively working on getting Arnold defeated and Angelides elected -- along with the rest of "the ilk"
If the CAGOP refuses to financially support the conservative candidates on their 2006 slate, which is their record thus far, they're just digging a deeper hole for themselves in 2010.
If the CAGOP continues to attempt to minimize and disenfranchise conservatives, they will wake up one day and wonder how they became their own, traditional enemy, the party of liberalism.
When the big tent collapses, the CAGOP need not look toward conservatives for salvation. Conservatives will be instigating the moderate mob and handing out pitch forks.
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