This is a surprise, a major TV station in Los Angeles pushes back against the California Air Resources Board AB32 bill aka California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. I urge readers to drop him a letter of support at the email address included in the transcript below.
Transcript follows.
LOS ANGELES – KTTV Vice-President and General Manager Kevin Hale takes a look at how one well-intentioned Climate Change Bill might damage our economy beyond repair in this P.O.V.
When Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 six years ago, it was pre-recession. And that legislation, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, despite its good intentions, will wreak havoc on our state’s economy.
The California Air Resources Board, under AB 32, recently approved the nation’s first “cap and trade” system, which effectively charges the state’s industries fees for emissions when they exceed a cap—in effect a tax—with the aim of curtailing California’s greenhouse gases.
The bill was passed for all the right reasons but the reality is, right now we are in a down economy, and AB 32 is a business killer. It effectively will be looked at as a back door tax that will push even more California businesses to move out of state.
California, although a leader on environmental issues, cannot solve the problem of greenhouses gases alone. When AB 32 was sold to voters, the promise was that other states would follow our lead. So far, none have.
A study by California State University, Sacramento, commissioned by the California Small Business Roundtable, estimates AB 32’s total cost to be more than $182 billion in lost output, raising living costs by $3,857 per household by the year 2020.
In light of these devastating numbers, I am asking Governor Brown and the legislature to put a moratorium on AB 32.
Look, we all agree that saving the environment is of the utmost importance but I believe that we should revisit this legislation when the economy improves and when other states are ready to join us.
Thanks for listening. I’d like to hear your Point of View. Go to myfoxla.com and click on P-O-V or send me an email at POV@fox11.com
Read more: http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/pov/pov-climate-change-bill-2012-03-15#ixzz1pIClmX6Q
The universe does not care about saving the environment.
The solar system does not care about saving the environment.
The earth itself does not care about saving the environment.
Only the human inhabitants of earth care about saving the environment and I being human share some of the caring, but not from CO2.
What iceberg?
I think we need to tie state bureaucrat / employee salaries (all) to business PROFIT, minus environmental / other lawsuit awards. Then we’ll see the state take off again.
It’s past time to stop the lawyer’s piglet feeding frenzy.
This problem is mimicked by the Feds.
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=3206
My take on California, AB32 and other onerous regulations, is that an unspoken goal governs. The goal is to reduce the population by approximately one-half, have zero gasoline or diesel use, and only clean industries. It’s a Utopian fantasy, but it makes sense out of the state’s long-standing pattern of regulations. AB32 is but the most recent in a long string of anti-business and anti-growth regulations.
Examples: no growth in water supply for decades. No improvements to roads or highways other than token additions. High wages mandated by law, making all products and services uncompetitive. Restricting building permits so real estate is prohibitively expensive. Clean air regulations that go beyond human health requirements and cause business and consumer costs to zoom. High taxes to discourage business and population in-migration. High electricity prices via a multi-tiered scheme. The list is almost unending.
The population is approaching 40 million. I believe the goal is 20 million, plus all cars and trucks to be powered by batteries, and all electric power generated by wind, solar, geothermal, or recycled waste.
There is a consistent pattern in this state.
On the contrary, I’ll be sending lots of emails to the state legislature to defend the bill to the death! I live in Texas, and we have been one of the beneficiaries of the incredibly stupid things the CA folks are doing. Keep it up! Pass more legislation! Save the whales, stop nuclear energy, find more endangered species! I won’t shed a tear California finally crumbles under the weight of it’s own peoples amazing actions….. (and will lobby equally hard AGAINST the expected national government bailout suggestions)
U-Haul charges thousands for one way rentals CA – TX, but cannot find people to go TX – CA, so ends up paying people to get their vehicles back to CA. ’nuff said.
A while back, when discussing California here at WUWT, someone used one way rental costs from the U-Haul truck rental company. I thought this was a great way to track the movement of people. Since the truck rentals are one way, they tend to collect in areas that people are moving to, and are in demand where people are moving from. Thus, trucks are rented at a lower rate going to those locations where they are needed.
Looking at U-Haul rates for a 17 foot truck:
From: San Jose, CA to Austin, Tx: $1426
From Austin, Tx to San Jose, CA :$625
From San Jose, CA to Phoenix, AZ: $627
From Phoenix, AZ to San Jose, CA $294
Note that it costs more than twice as much to rent a truck going from San Jose as is does to rent a truck going to San Jose. More people are definitely leaving California than are moving there. That can’t be good for economy.
Roger Sowell says:
March 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Yes Roger, U.N. Agenda 12
Here is “Agenda 21 For Dummies”
It’s bad out here in California. How bad?
its so bad the illegals are going back to mexico to get a job.
badabing, bada booom bada bing.
C
I wonder if the Qld labourr governmenmt is going to sue Flannery for telling them that it would never rain again in Queeensland due to global warming or even BOM?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/damages-to-flow-from-wivenhoe-dam-breach/story-fn59niix-1226302194752
It’s bad out here in California. How bad?
ita so bad that the politicians charge sales taxes on the gas taxes paid at the pump. yeah thats a TAX on the TAXES paid for road maintainence and construction that somehow finds its way into other things.
badabing, bada booom bada bing.
C
George:
I read in the news yesterday, or perhaps the day before that Brown was toying around with the idea of raising taxes on the wealthy yet again. At this point, I don’t think even a moratorium on AB32 will save that once proud state.
Never mind how strong their eye-glasses, some humans cannot see any further than to the tip of their noses anyway.
Shut down fossil fuel use and you shut down industry. — Easy to see for some but for the nearsighted —?
– How come Conan the Barbarian got to govern the civilized people of California anyway?
Reality strikes! Slowly but surely people and the media are beginning to see the light of the pointlessness of sacrificing over a non-problem.
$182 billion. Wow. Just wow.
Now multiply that by how many decades? Why wait for a “catastrophe”? We can cause one ourselves now and beat the game!
rgb
“Look, we all agree that saving the environment is of the utmost importance but…”
Who is he trying to kid? Most normally-adjusted people don’t agree with anything of the sort.
back in the middle seventies i watched the prices of machine tools, earthmovers and other large expensive items.
los angeles county added a half percent sales tax bringing the sales tax on a bulldozer to 4.5%.
~ $85,000 purchase at the time. within a year all of the major companies moved from La county to orange county.
now the sales tax for some parts of LA county is hovering around 8.5% and they just don’t understand………
C
Not sure how my left-leaning major Chicago newspaper let this article get their ink, but it was on my door-step this morning.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/11318027-418/story.html
Excerpt:
“Experts at the Climate Prediction Center say give a hearty thank you, in part, to something called the Madden-Julian Oscillation.
Like the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings in Africa that helps cause a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, far-flung climate patterns hundreds or even thousands of miles away are helping fuel the nation’s bizarre, record-shattering March heat.
Three global climate patterns — the Madden-Julian Oscillation, La Nina, and the Arctic Oscillation — are contributing in some way to this surreal March, says Jon Gottschalck, head of forecast operations at the Climate Prediction Center.
The Madden-Julian Oscillation, named for the two scientists who discovered it in the early 1970s, is a climate pattern in the tropics. It’s basically a large-scale disturbance that moves east around the Earth’s equator over a period of 30-60 days, influencing rainfall and weather patterns around the world, he says.
The more well-known La Nina climate pattern — a cooling of tropical ocean water in the Pacific — is also a factor, as is the Arctic Oscillation, a swinging of high and low atmospheric pressure over the Arctic.”
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The article credits: James Scalzitti, Gannett News Service.
A pretty good read, with no mention of AGW.
OHD says:
– How come Conan the Barbarian got to govern the civilized people of California anyway?
we thought he was a republican, he said he was a republican, they funded him, he was marked one on the recall ballot.
it was just that an hour after they finished counting the ballots things changed.
smart money was that he got the word at the breakfast table.
C
Is there anything they do that does not wreck havoc?
At this point they cannot claim good intentions without admitting stupidity.
But our children and our grand-children. Think of the how our suffering now will give them a utopian world with absolutely no worries or cares (or food, or energy, or work).
Think of the children.
/sarc
This guy shouldn’t get any positive feedback, much less kudos, for that message. The only way to stop this nonsense is to confront it and beat it. Halfhearted rationalizing like this won’t cut it.
Government keeps wanting more money…..yet doesn’t seem to have any clue where that money comes from
I say get everyone in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to jump up and down at the same time….
…maybe we can shake it loose and cut our losses
So, he is for it but was for it but is now aginst it so he can be for it later beacuse he wants to be for it but can not be for it until it is safe to be for it.??
This is just stupid: AB 32 was passed “for all the right reasons”? You have to be kidding me. Mr. Hale isn’t part of the solution, he’s part of the problem. If this is reflective of the depth of thinking of California business, they deserve what they get.
I WANT to see this bill enforced. I WANT to see California’s economy driven into complete ruin.
Die, Kalifornia, Die!!!