Comments on: Parallels between Australia, Assembly AB 32 revolt are obvious

By: wildbill

wildbill — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:01:27 +0000

Please do not let your state backtrack on the value of fossil fuels in your energy mix. It is important that California stand as an example of what stringent laws that make fossil fuels much more expensive will do to the economy.

If you are a business owner or CEO reading this post, I hope you will consider that Texas is in the midst of an economic boom fueled by new development of gas and oil and the future of fuel costs in our state is on a downward trend.

We’re not only energy friendly, we have no state income tax and far fewer laws and regulations that would impede our economy.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:49:54 +0000

Dang, gas is already over 4 bucks a gallon. How much harder do the Demoncrats who are still for this want to hammer the poor and middle class?

By: Hondo

Hondo — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:52:28 +0000

Queeg:
You are the doomer, saying the earth is about to catch fire. This after the coldest winter in recorded history in North Amerika.
The carbon tax is a drop kick in the nuts to small business and poooor people in Kali, most of those being people of color. All to help Al gore buy even more earth destroying houses with the profits from his phony crisis.
Hondo….

By: Donkey

Donkey — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:29:37 +0000

The Aussies have used logic and reason the reject an imaginary enemy. 🙂

By: Queeg

Queeg — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:50:30 +0000

Doomers a naive lot superficially skimming articles and miscalculating evil among us.

Globalists, Enviro Nutcakes and Chamber of Commerce want your being…..indenture you upper middle class teabagger believers while you’re busy personallly accumulating and coveting assets……for them!

You have been Facebooked out of your privacy….what sots….they own you…..as Alinsky knew….the globalists will come for you and clean you out.

By: Robert S. Allen

Robert S. Allen — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:22:29 +0000

Senator Perea, good luck writing CARB. They didn’t even acknowledge receiving an email I sent that would have transformed travel between the Bay Area and Sacramento, and within the Bay Area: a BART/Capitol Corridor transfer station at the BART overhead in Oakland (at the I-880/7th Street interchange.) A Bay Area Rail Hub station there would make Bay-Sac rail trips much more viable than the time-consuming and awkward transfer rail buffs now must make at Richmond.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:09:59 +0000

Fossil fuels are NOT evil, as the American economy, and the lifestyle to which we have become accustomed is being challenged by our need for oil.

Oil is the foundation of the California economy and its mobility for 38 million citizens. More than 97% of California’s 32,000,000 vehicles DO NOT run on electricity or other alternative fuels.

The current California vehicle registration in 2012 was 32,000,000 (2,662 billion miles driven) and the consumption of transportation fuels was 50,000,000 gallons EVERY DAY, or an average of about 1.5 gallons per day per vehicle.

Vehicle registration is projected to grow 37% from 32,000,000 to 44,000,000 vehicles by 2030 and 3,138 billion miles projected to be driven (18% increase). The fuel demand is projected to decrease slightly from the current 50,000,000 gallons per DAY mostly as a result of more fuel efficiencies, and a slight impact by the small number of vehicles run on electricity or other alternative fuels.

EVERY CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY is dependent on energy from the petrochemical sector as well as the by-products from oil for their existence to support the lifestyle and standard of living that we have become accustomed.

Oil supply from California and Alaska is now less than 50%. To support the California economy, in state oil would be less expensive and more environmentally effective than meeting our needs with crude oil by trucks or rail into California.

We definitely need safe, economical, and reliable sources of energy to maintain our lifestyle and economy, but beating up on the ONE industry that supports all the other industries appears to be a way of shooting ourselves in the foot.