How many times must I say to Arnold, “Tell me it ain’t true!?!?”
Last week, the Governor of California signed legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the state. What this means to businesses and taxpayers is an increasing burden amounting to hardship proportions. The Governator, who is running for reelection on a no new taxes plank, now imposes this burden on EVERY Californian — indirectly, it IS a new tax!
From World Climate Report, we get some objective analysis of the motivation behind this recently-signed, whacked-out, drive businesses-out-of-the-state Greenbat legislation:
For nearly 100 years, Californians have claimed to be the innovators that the rest of the United States and the world ultimately follow. Not so on global warming. Instead, the California Legislature and Governor Schwarzenegger have just passed and signed global warming legislation that is an awful lot like a watered-down version of the failed Kyoto Protocol. That’s sooo 1990s.
That Protocol was supposed to reduce our emissions of Carbon Dioxide, the main human-generated global warming gas, to 7% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Nationally, emissions are up about 18% since then. Recognizing this failure, the California law merely cuts back California emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a 25% cut.
Why on earth did they do this, and what will it accomplish?
In a word, politics.
