Comments on: Dems stop bills to ease gas price hike

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:24:53 +0000

Dan

Remember us…..sob

Buy local Bro!

By: Dan Wheeler

Dan Wheeler — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:39:34 +0000

Leza is absolutely correct! These MORONS in Sacramento have not only sided with the Holly Weird Leftists Elite and the Environmentalist Waco’s but have once again shown that they have the same mental disorder that afflicts our Congress Critters in Washington…too much time in office and lack of having to work!

This stupidity was the final straw for my business! Texas here I come!

By: Leza Fremont

Leza Fremont — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:28:41 +0000

Correction….any candidate who utters “climate change” loses my vote. I forgot to add wise words from Dr. Murray Salby, “The 1% of the global energy budget controlled by CO2 cannot wag the other 99%.”

By: Leza Fremont

Leza Fremont — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:24:51 +0000

As a middle class person, this panics me. How are people reacting who are less than middle class? I’m disgusted. Any candidate who utters the words climate instantly loses my vote. I want every legislator who voted against Prop 23 explain to me why they believe that manmade CO2 will one day be the human race’s death knell. I will help you put your thinking cap on, because clearly you can’t do it on your own: 3% of our atmosphere are trace gases. Only .03% of the trace gases is CO2. 4% of THAT is manmade equating to .0012%. But wait, the hysterial is over a much smaller amount, the 100ppm increase in the last century, or 100ppm x .0012% = .12 ppm!! Are you f’g kidding me?? So you stupid CA state legislators need to explain to your electorate why you are destroying the CA economy over .12 ppm of manmade CO2. BTW, my tree service contractor is packing it in because of the $30k it will cost him to retrofit his equipment in compliance with AB32.

By: Deserttrek

Deserttrek — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:27:05 +0000

the level of detachment in Sacramento is no longer frightening it is criminal. the citizens are being taxed to support pie in the sky stupidity, illegal alien lifestyles and being told we should give control of our lives to faceless nameless entities in government. to those who agree a pox on all of you. the state is dying and as soon as i can leave i will gladly watch it implode

By: Queeg

Queeg — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:39:39 +0000

Cap/trade on gasoline just might flatten wages and hours work per week for generations. Plus kiss popular benefits bye bye. There is no more meat on the bone…..

So will we all end up rewarded periodically(election times) with government benevolence through …end all poverty…. minimum wage increases?

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:50:09 +0000

The public is getting to absorb the ever increasing costs associated with their continuous support of AB32 since 2006, for products and services that are the basis of our lifestyle and economy.

California’s Global Warming Initiative AB32 was passed in 2006 without a financial impact projection on its projected costs to the California economy. In 2010, following the recession, Prop 23 proposed delaying its implementation until the California economy could “afford” it, but it was soundly defeated in 2010. Cost of energy in California continues to rise and severely impacting the financially challenged that can least afford more expense to tread water. In 2015 the cost of implementation of other pieces of the law supported by the people is about to hit the pocket books of all Californians.

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

Extra costs resulting from government actions on businesses are a slight inconvenience to those making the big bucks. Those behind the over regulations, over taxation, and uncontrollable “fees” on businesses are mostly the highly compensated, and most with sweet defined retirement benefit packages waiting for them upon retirement, i.e., those that CAN afford the higher costs that trickle down to all citizens for products and services.

Thus, the polluters i.e., the manufacturers as well as the users of the products or services manufactured have been and will continue to pay for the lifestyle that supports our economy. Those polluters are NOT just the manufacturers providing the products and services to the economy, but the entire population that is guilty by association to the pollution as they are the users of the manufactured products and services.

Those that earn less than $20 per hour, which includes virtually all those in the food and hospitality industries, are the ones that can least afford higher costs for power, transportation fuels, and food. There is minimal impact to those that can afford the results of our relentless business unfriendly efforts, but little hope for the financially challenged that can barely exist at today’s cost of living.