Under the radar tax increases. This is redistribution, pure and simple. I was an idiot to pay my own way I guess.

Life is good!!!

In the last 20 years, Southern California’s population has doubled, but the air quality has gotten BETTER, not worse. New rules by government bureaucrats, however, are coming into play that will increase the costs of electricity, gasoline, roads, homes, services, you name it, for literally no significant betterment of air quality.

Californians already pay among already the steepest prices in the nation for gasoline. A good deal of this is due to the state’s mandatory unique gasoline formula and combined taxes at the pump which are the country’s second highest.

Cap and Trade, a cornerstone of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act. Projections place the cost of cap and trade at anywhere from 50 cents to one dollar per gallon added to the retail price of gasoline here just for the 37 million in CA, for a go-it-alone State that contributes less than 1% of the GHG’s being emitted into the worlds atmosphere, and billions in increased general energy costs.

Under cover of AB 32, CARB is forcing billions of dollars in higher costs on our struggling economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with global warming.

The problem is that California and its 37 million citizens contribute less than 1% of the world’s greenhouse gases. Solving a world GHG problem is not the responsibility of the few that live in California. Maybe China and India with 2.4 BILLION contributors may be, but not California’s 37 million.

CARB touts California’s “leadership” in the war on climate change. The “leadership” premise is similar to crossing the street within the confines of the crosswalk and getting hit by a bus – you’re right, but “DEAD RIGHT!”

Those who feel that spending billions to reduce greenhouse gases in a State that contributes less than 1% of the world’s GHG’s may be right, but they are dead right as it accelerates the exodus of businesses and jobs from California, and an unemployment rate that consistently remains among the highest in the country.

With California transportation fuels already among the country’s most expensive and our gas taxes the second highest in the USA, it’s impossible to justify the imposition of billions in higher fuel costs just to retain the title of “leader” in greenhouse gas reductions.

CARB would do well to get out of the crosswalk and stop throwing California’s economy further under the bus.

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