There Ought to Be a Law

Please take the time to read these excerpts (italics below) from 2 new California Laws (2 of 40 new Climate Bills signed by Governor Gavin Newsome last Friday). The link to the complete article is: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gavin-newsoms-2024-climate-platform-california-40-climate-bills-energy-electricity-blackouts-11663702766. After you have “enjoyed” the excerpt below, I will tell you about a Law That Isn’t a Law but It Ought to Be a Law Law.

The excerpt is...

“Another new law would require that the state reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 85% below 1990 levels and achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2045. The state Air Resources Board would have free-wheeling power to impose regulations to achieve these benchmarks, including restricting new housing construction, manufacturing and agricultural production.

The Western States Petroleum Association says these new targets would cost every California household between $5,600 and $10,700 a year and increase the cost of building a new home by at least $50,000. Like all of California’s climate policies, the new CO2 goals are a hidden regressive tax that will smack low- and middle-income residents hardest.

Ditto a new law limiting new oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, parks or businesses open to the public. California’s oil production has fallen 40% since 2014 owing to climate regulation that discourages investment. The state has had to import more oil by tanker from overseas. Can Mr. Newsom explain how this reduces CO2 emissions?

California’s new oil production limitations could destroy tens of thousands of jobs. The State Building and Construction Trades Council warned they would eliminate “high wage industrial manufacturing union jobs in California’s most disadvantaged and underserved communities,” which “represent the only path out of poverty” for many.”

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Time out for a Fella Did You Notice?...

Did you notice these words? “The State Air Resources Board would have free-wheeling power to impose regulations”. This means a law has been passed to allow Bureaucrats of the Future to do whatever they want to do. To me this means they have ongoing power to make ongoing laws.

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The article mentions the year 2045. By golly, Batman, that’s 23 years from now before California’s Citizens will be able to see the full ongoing impact of this law. Many of the people who passed this law will be an unpleasant memory by 2045 (if they are remembered at all).

The Law That Isn’t a Law but It Ought to Be a Law Is...

People who pass such Long Term They-Gotta-Be-Nuts Laws ought to not be allowed to die before the full effect of their legislative “wisdom” is finished having its full ongoing devastating impact.

If they are still with us, the good people of California could go demonstrate in front of their house (that seems to be the thing to do nowadays). It is simply not the same thing to go demonstrate in front of a grave marker.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Does it not get under your skin when you see the words in the first paragraph above, “agricultural production”. It makes farming sound like a dirty word. Who would have thought we would get to the point in our foolishness where we would hear our rulers say something like, “I know what you are up to! You are trying to grow things that people can eat! If we let you get away with this sort of thing, the next thing you know, people will not be starving to death!”