Californication
There goes my home state. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Few issues are hotter in the Capitol this year than global warming.
Lawmakers have introduced more than 60 bills on the topic, and no wonder. Polls show widespread support among California voters for tackling climate change. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez received rock star-like affection worldwide for their work on landmark greenhouse gas legislation last year. And there is a seemingly infinite number of policy directions the state could take to lower carbon emissions.
“It’s become an apple-pie issue,’‘ noted Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic strategist in California. “It’s like being for better schools.’‘
This year, lawmakers are pushing bills to require diesel-powered school buses to run on biodiesel fuel instead of regular diesel; change regulations to make it easier for housing projects to install solar power; require televisions and computers to be more energy efficient; create a new bureaucracy to consolidate the disparate agencies that study climate change issues; and add incentives for gas station owners to install pumps for alternative fuels.
In a repeat from last year, there is also an effort to require that half of all cars sold in California run on alternative fuels by 2020.
A check of legislation moving through the Capitol shows more than 60 bills have been introduced to deal with climate change. And Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, the chairman of the Assembly’s key energy committee, noted he had discouraged others from drawing up even more plans when they approached him “wanting to do something about alternative fuels, or solar power,’‘ he said.
Some of these I don’t mind, but we’ve seen where this will all lead before. Reduced choices and freedoms for people. It’s like the anti-smoking hysteria all over again. First they introduced no smoking signs in hospitals and a few other places, then more and more places banned smoking until now, it is almost impossible to smoke anywhere. Even outside. These new bureaucracies will endlessly spew out more and more autocratic restrictions until you can’t do anything. It’s going to be really horrible. And it’s all based on pseudo-science and lies. Gore’s film is one lie after another.
The only possible saving grace is if they go too far and a voter backlash kicks out the crazies in power. But that’s not looking likely at the moment. The most popular mode of transportation for fanatics is the bandwagon. They created this false crisis purely for the purpose of driving through more and more restrictive laws and taxes. It’s just what the left claims the neo-cons did with the war on terror. Whether that’s true or not, at least the neo-cons aren’t trying to take us back to the stone age.
<SIGH>
Arnold.
What a disappointment…
He really IS Hollywood, isn’t he?
Posted by on 04/03 at 11:24 AMYeah, it’s sad.
Posted by on 04/03 at 11:29 AMDon’t we live in a wonderful time. Why, distilling bio diesel uses no energy at all. Those soybeans magically plant themselves, harvest themselves, transport themselves, and distill themselves while using no energy at all. Then ,like magic, the brew shows up at the filling station, waiting to be dispensed into the fuel tank. Oops, gotta wake up now.
Posted by on 04/03 at 03:48 PMDon’t forget the animals that produce fertilizer don’t exhale CO2 and Methane.
Posted by on 04/03 at 05:44 PM
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