If they succeed, what they couldn’t do through simple innovation and competition, they will push through with legal subterfuge.

If lead recycling becomes ‘illegal’ then the cost of a very basic and cost effective storage technology will rise.

Look to the ‘green’ providers of uncompetitive battery storage tech and their minions for the ‘cui bono’ angle.

Follow the money!

Search for ‘earthjustice’ in this article
http://www.calcars.org/calcarsclips.doc

http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/clean_vehicles/Moving-California-Forward-Executive-Summary.pdf

Indications that they, and the sierra club, are continuing their anti ghg, anti oil, pro clean tech push.

I wouldn’t at all be surprised if certain electric car companies were directly funding these activities and bills.

Vice chairman of the board Steve Soeth said the new state would need 10-15 counties. So far, Glenn is joined by Siskiyou and Modoc counties, which also voted to make the move.

Most of the proposed maps include counties in southern Oregon and Northern California.

“We want to be a part of the Jefferson movement,” Soeth said.

To create a new state separate from California, approval would be needed from the California Legislature and Congress.

Soeth said two town hall meetings were held in Glenn County. The sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of joining a new state, Soeth said.

Many people have questions about how it would all work, with funding, California debt and infrastructure. But the tone is that the state does not represent rural, northern counties fairly, he said.

“This is sending notice to the state that we’re tired of being their victim,” Glenn County Supervisors Chairman Mike Murray said.

“We are a byproduct of whatever the urban areas want — the L.A. basin, San Francisco. They have more representatives.”

Another issue is that each county no longer has its own state senator, which was the case before the 1960s, Soeth said. “We are governed by urban legislators.”

Assembly Bill 32 (Global Warming Act), and restrictions under California Air Resources Board were two areas where Soeth said California rules don’t fit with rural counties.

“The trucking industry is tagged with things that make sense in urban areas. We have the best air up here” while trucking businesses are going under.

The vote Tuesday doesn’t obligate the county, and doesn’t cost the county money, Soeth said.

During discussions about state finances, Soeth said people in other parts of the state view Northern California as a financial drain, even a “welfare area.”

If the million or so residents in Northern California and southern Oregon formed the State of Jefferson, government could be streamlined, Soeth said.

The last time a new state was formed through a division similar to the Jefferson movement was in the 1860s, and resulted in the creation of West Virginia, Soeth said. Of course, much legal wrangling preceded West Virginia statehood.

“It comes down to the state is so large and ungovernable the way it is,” the supervisor said.

He believes it would serve California as a whole to “cut us loose and we’ll figure it out.”

When people worry about the worst-case scenario, law enforcement is usually at the top of the list, Soeth said, followed by education and roads.

“Those are questions for down the road. The first thing is to get a coalition of counties.”

A meeting was held in Chico earlier this month, with a crowd of about 300; see story here: http://goo.gl/wTWQkm.

At that meeting, people were urged to contact Butte County leaders.

Soeth said other areas where the movement is strong include the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake and Colusa.

While remote from the other counties, Placer County has said “don’t leave us out,” Soeth said.

“I think it’s time. But the wheels of our government grind along slowly sometimes.”

Northern counties are “like-minded thinkers,” with roots in agriculture, mining and timber. “We all speak the same language,” he said.