I’m proud to say that Dan Logue is my assemblyman. – Anthony
Economic initiative makes the ballot
In a phone interview, Logue said he found out Tuesday the initiative had enough valid signatures.
He said the initiative needed 440,000 signatures and it got 800,000. The names were collected by volunteers and paid “signature gatherers,” he said.
AB32 became law in 2006. It provides that between 2012 and 2020, greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced to the levels they were in 1990.
Logue’s initiative would postpone the implementation of AB32 until the state’s unemployment rate stands at 5.5 percent for a year. Now the jobless rate is around 12 percent.
Suspending AB32 only makes sense, Logue said. “We can’t afford it. We’ll lose another million jobs. It will drive business out of the state.”
Robin Huffman, advocacy director for the Chico-based Butte Environmental Council, expressed the opposite view.
Suspending AB32 is not necessary, she said. The law “is the very encouragement and incentive that is needed to create the jobs that we need for the new green economy.”
She called AB32 “a very, very reasonable law” and “a step in the right direction.”
“I’m sad that it’s gotten on the ballot,” she said of Logue’s initiative.
Logue said he’s long been disturbed by what he called a regulatory climate in the state that discourages business.
“Economic recovery begins by suspending AB32,” he said.
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Roger Sowell:
“Simply put, it cannot be done.”
Right you are, which sets up companies for a shakedown: for a payment, exceptions can be granted.
AKA: extortion.
If this passes and leads to more positive steps California will be the best possible example. After all if the inmates of the worlds largest looney bin can pull themselves up out of the abyss, then the rest of us will know we can pull back from its edge.
Dave L says:
June 24, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Dave, you are exactly correct. There may be many useful idiots for the cause, but we need to recognize the green movement for what it is: An attempt to destroy this country.
Life is not all beer and skittles, this research was discussed in an article earlier?
what is the story with the methane release in the Gulf of Mexico – I mean with relation to global warming????
Methane being released in the Gulf of Mexico could precipitate Global Warming – very very fast:
In an article on Methane Hydrate Ice you find that: Recent discoveries about the existence of a vast band of Methane Hydrate Ice along the world’s continental Slopes, at approx. 500 meters depth, have revolutionized the theories of the Ice Age and Global Warming Cycles. The accumulation of Methane Ice leads to Ice Ages and the rapid melting and effervescence of this ice and gas leads to an equally rapid Global Warming.
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/
Vast amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 23-25 times more potent than carbon dioxide, are locked in the deep sea and in the frozen soils of Siberia, Northern Europe, and North America, but warming could trigger rapid thawing that would release billions of tons into the atmosphere.
“The potential consequences of large amounts of methane entering the atmosphere, from thawing permafrost or destabilized ocean hydrates, would lead to abrupt changes in the climate that would likely be irreversible. We must not cross that threshold.