Environmental Madness Threatens Every CA Job

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.digitalnewsreport.com/2010/01/0...ery-ca-job/1809

AB 32 – a law that requires a 25% reduction in state greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

The fact that California is the only state in the union to cap carbon emissions may be something to boast about in Denmark. Here at home, however, the cold hard reality of what AB 32 will mean to our state’s economy is beginning to set in.

In order to meet the lofty goals of AB 32, Californians will have to shoulder enormous expenses. A draft report by the California Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee (EAAC) says it could cost businesses and other entities that emit greenhouse gases between $48 billion and $143 billion to comply with AB 32’s strict mandates.

In his “California’s Capitol” blog, Greg Lucas did some enlightening math, using estimates provided by Cal-EPA and CARB to the committee on the likely cost of allowances that would be exchanged among polluters in AB 32’s “cap and trade” system and applying them to the carbon dioxide emissions reported by a number of specific California businesses in 2008. Alstyle Apparel, a clothing manufacturer in Anaheim would have to pay between $540,000 and $1.6 million under cap-and-trade. ConocoPhillip’s Wilmington plant would have to spend between $40 million and $120 million.

These costs are enormous, and for many employers, prohibitive to doing business in California. Other states and even countries without these extra logistical and financial burdens, will attract more new business, and welcome businesses leaving California’s hostile regulatory climate. Even those who elect to remain in California will pass these costs down to the consumer, raising the cost-of-living on already struggling families.

Out of work Californians – and there are millions of them – can’t wait for phantom “green jobs” to appear some day. The climate change California’s leaders need to be working on is improving our state’s dismal business climate, and we should start by suspending AB 32.

By: Senator Bob Huff

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Get the hec outta there!

[Danno 1,228]

No kidding, how big does the hand writing on the wall have to be before people read it.

These Eco Nazis have a goal.

The ECO part is just a vehicle to achieve it.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

No kidding, how big does the hand writing on the wall have to be before people read it.

These Eco Nazis have a goal.

The ECO part is just a vehicle to achieve it.

Danno, they just be flingin shite and hopin it sticks somewhere!

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

i wonder if the tree huggers will think this is such a great thing when they're all unemployed.

[Craneman 2]

i wonder if the tree huggers will think this is such a great thing when they're all unemployed.

I am working on a new book and will bw researching it in CA, the proposed title, "Revesre Grapes of Wrath" or possibly "The Return From Grapes of Wrath"

Masses leaving CA for China and India, or the most popular will be Mexico, trying to follow the fleeing jobs.

[Craneman 2]

i wonder if the tree huggers will think this is such a great thing when they're all unemployed.

I am in Brasil at the monet doing preliminary work for another $800M project that has been canceled in the U.S. because of tree hugger type people and regullations.

Build the plants in Brasil, China, and India ship the products to the U.S. gotta love our Govenment policies.