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!”
