From MCR,
Washington State voters have, over the course of the last few years defeated multiple, repeated attempts to have Carbon Trading Schemes enacted and enforced in that once-great State. Our Illustrious (and Former Democratic Presidential Candidate) Mr. Jay Inslee was seen and heard all over the airwaves during those times, endorsing the supposed benefits of Carbon Trading – required by the overwhelming ‘Existential Threat ™’ of ‘Glow-bull Warming’.
Washington Sate voters summarily voted down these repeated attempts to ram carbon taxes down our ‘fossil fuel’ guzzling throats.
Not able to persuade the electorate to willingly have their gasoline, natural gas, diesel, and other fuels artificially cost-inflated by taxing Carbon Dioxide, the Warmists in Washington State were left with few remaining methods to impose artificial Carbon Taxation and Carbon Trading schemes through elections. As a method of last resort, they merely looked to the Left Coast South, and the shining examples of California and Oregon and their highly unsuccessful Clean Fuel Standards. Seeing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) had already imposed Carbon (Dioxide) Taxation disguised as a Clean Fuels Standard in those States, Washington’s Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) was able to plagiarize those trumped-up Carbon Trading Schemes (disguised as a Clean Fuels Standard), recode them as their own, and they now are on the verge of imposing these Standards in the Puget Sound Regional counties of Kitsap, Pierce, King, and Snohomish – home the major population centers of Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. Not surprisingly, these impending regulations have not been communicated to the populace through the local media, except for a few local right-leaning AM radio talk shows. The following links detail these impending rules:
https://washingtonstatewire.com/puget-sound-clean-air-agency-releases-draft-of-clean-fuel-standard/
https://pscleanair.gov/528/Clean-Fuel-Standard
The public have time to weigh in on these rules, as follows:
Public Comment
The public has 90 days to provide comment and feedback on the draft rule. Comments can be provided in the following ways:
Email: CleanFuels@pscleanair.gov
Mail: Send to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, 1904 Third Avenue, Suite 105, Seattle, WA 98101
In-person: Public hearing on December 19, 2019, at the Washington State Convention Center (more details below)
All comments are due by January 6, 2020.
Following the public comment period, the Agency will consider and summarize all comments received and respond to comments by category. The Agency will then make the comment and response summary available on this webpage or to individuals upon request.
I plead with Mr. Watts, moderators, and all readers and contributors of WUWT to get this message out, and to lodge a comment regarding these onerous rules at the PSCAA website comments section.
Thanks in advance for your consideration,
Regards,
MCR
As well, it appears that the local EPA Air Contaminants enforcing Agency, embodied by the PSCAA has failed to perform the mandatory Cost-Benefit Analysis for these new regulations. I will use this error/omission in my comment to PSCAA, while citing the statutory requirements as found here: https://www.epa.gov/economic-and-cost-analysis-air-pollution-regulations, and here: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-proposes-cost-benefit-analysis-reform. Nowhere was I able to find such an analysis; this alone should stop the impending adoption of the new rules.
Yeah, that’ll happen – when Hades becomes an ice rink.
Or, when porcine farm animals take wing.
and finally, when the extra-large woman belts out the final aria……
Regards,
MCR
You still waiting for
Rubenesque Ruby to Resound Resplendently
Hello Michael,
When I look at the EPA site regarding cost benefit analysis I read it is for stationary sources. I haven’t looked up the RCW referenced in the agency documents for which they claim this proposal is exempt. Input?
Thanks,
Caroline
I’m sure the good people in the Seattle area will enjoy paying over 4 dollars a gallon for fuel knowing deep in their hearts they are saving the world from humanity. Meanwhile, I enjoy $1.99 a gallon gasoline here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
As a life long resident of WA state, I am ashamed and dismayed by the lack of logic and intelligence as should have been taught to public school students over the past 5 decades. Thus, what we have to deal with now.
As a result we now have a legislature controlled by fools and idiots. This is the kind of legislation they pass or the local level versions of, pass. WA state will suffer. I will rip the clean air agency in my comments and remind them of the need to extend the comment period so more light can be shined upon this agenda of fraud.
Thanks for the heads up about WA Clean Fuels Initiative. I just sent the State Government Agency on this matter my opinion about this possible betrayal.
Washington’s Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) was able to plagiarize those trumped-up Carbon Trading Schemes (disguised as a Clean Fuels Standard)
I am a WA State resident. I plan to comment. Please give more detail to support this claim. I believe it, by the way, but I’m a detail sorta guy. I would also like to know how much extra cost per gallon this would add to fuel, and how that extra cost is calculated. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a reply, so I sent a comment opposing the standard but without the kind of factual argument that I prefer to make. Not that it will matter, because if there’s one thing any WA State resident knows, it’s that the “progressives” who run this state wouldn’t be caught dead listening to anyone outside of their echo chamber anyway.