Not only Moonbeam, mind you, but most of the socialist Democrats in the California state legislature who use the fanatical Green religion as an excuse to strip people of their means of independent transportation and single family homes.
Senate Bill 350, now pending in the Assembly, sets 2020 goals of a 50 percent reduction in petroleum use, having 50 percent of electric power coming from renewable sources, and increasing energy efficiency of buildings by 50 percent.
Senate Bill 32 sets even more ambitious California carbon reduction goals for 2050.
This is serious business.
While Brown and his co-religionists declare that it’s a moral imperative to become a global leader in battling climate change via carbon reduction, the goals they set forth will obviously require massive lifestyle changes and have immense economic effects.
The problem is that we don’t know what those changes and those effects will be.
The oil industry and other opponents of the legislation, mostly in the business community, have issued dire warnings about what could happen, one of which is that California would have to impose rationing on gasoline to meet the 50 percent reduction goal.
[Nancy McFadden, a top aide to Gov. Jerry Brown,] says that’s “ridiculous,” and it may be. But her response implies that she knows something the rest of us don’t know about what steps will be taken to reach the two measures’ goals — what adjustments Californians would have to make in their lives.
They are not in the measures themselves, nor are they in the various documents being distributed to support the proposed policies.
The materials being published by the California Air Resources Board, including a “Climate Change Scoping Plan,” Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, author of SB 350, and billionaire Tom Steyer’s supportive organization are full of lofty hopes but bereft of real-life detail.
Who will pay for the millions of electric vehicles they envision replacing conventional cars and energy-efficiency measures?
How will reducing oil-based fuel affect California families, who are already paying some of the nation’s highest gas prices? Will our electric power rates, already among the nation’s highest, increase even more? How will carbon-reduction costs affect the nearly 25 percent of Californians who are poverty-stricken? Most importantly, would being a carbon-reduction leader hurt or help the California economy and its 18 million workers?
While Bernie Sanders is out demonizing the Koch brothers, no one ever seems to hear about people like Tom Steyer — a person who is using his billions to help make the hoi polloi fully dependent on Big Nanny Government.
For our own good, of course.
Isn’t California the state which refuses to license new electric power plants? How do they propose to charge up all these new cars? And where do they think this electricity comes from?
Shermlaw –
Unicorn flatulence predictions are trending MUCH higher – please try to keep up.
Jerry and company have come up the epiphany that if you want technological innovation and change, all you have to do is command it.
Recall the Monty Python cartoon “The Miracle of Flight” where the king gathers all his great thinkers together and one by one demands that the “fly” as they plunge to their deaths off a cliff.
Tom Steyer: Poster Boy for American Fascism.
There must be other ways to buy your stairway to Heaven than to interfere with the lives of so many others.
How about trying to figure out ways to extinguish coal seam fires?
A smart conservative familiar with the inanities of California’s initiative system might could start a measure requiring all holders of elected office use public transit.
Just be sure to exclude government owned vehicles –it’s gotta be something us peasants are expected to use.
Is there any draconian measure that Clownifornians won’t just meekly accept in a supine and submissive posture?
They’re already doing a bang-up job of driving out businesses and the wealthy. This should help drive out a lot of the middle class. If you remove more than half the driving population you can achieve the desired goal.
¡Tijuana Norte! Maybe then ¡Jeb! will only lose the state by 20 percent.
‘George Orwell’ wrote: Is there any draconian measure that Clownifornians won’t just meekly accept in a supine and submissive posture?
I fear, as with so many other trends in the past, we’re seeing in California a preview of what will happen in the rest of the country in the next few years.
We could get just as draconian on Sacremento. No travel outside of your district except to an from legislative sessions in Sacramento.
Kind of along the lines of we’ll start believing it’s a crisis when you start acting like it’s a crisis.
Greetings:
Bullet trains to everywhere for everyone thanks to Governor Bullet Head. Yup, that’s the ticket.