Comments on: Brown orders new emissions cuts

By: desmond

desmond — Sat, 02 May 2015 23:29:11 +0000

Don t forget open borders. That will reduce carbon emissions. Some things are just counter-intuitive to us mortals, but Brown is ahead of us.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Sat, 02 May 2015 14:53:40 +0000

Not to worry! Gov. Moonbeams next order will to be tax all fossil fuel vehicles out of existence and turn the freeways in to bike paths, ban nuke and conventional power plants and run the state on just solar cells and wind turbines.
All in the name of Stopping “Climate Change” and preventing the seas from rising!

No wonder J.B. Is called Gov. Moonbeam!

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 02 May 2015 03:22:17 +0000

Worry not.

Commodity shortages are the new reality due to devolution of the industrial revolution.

Black Swans all over the place……these critters are creepy stealthy!

And they taste like chicken.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Fri, 01 May 2015 15:43:48 +0000

These goals will be achieved in typically underhanded fashion via carbon offsets in OTHER STATES, primarily the northwest. So once again Kalifornia gets to declare victory….while the economies of Oregon and Washington get HAMMERED. So sick of these ultra-righteous Marin SOB’s…..

By: ecopolitics

ecopolitics — Fri, 01 May 2015 14:36:25 +0000

The California Independent System Operator (ISO) overseeing the state’s electric power plants, transmission grid and system planning recently raised the specter of energy poverty due to the state-mandated renewable energy portfolio’s failure to meet rising electric power demands. The challenge to meet non-peak electricity demands has been created by the state’s 33 to 51 percent mandate for green renewable power by 2020. These non-peak power shortfalls are already occurring, but will get worse by 2015, and become disastrous under Brown’s new climate conniption.

Green renewable energies include wind, solar, biofuel, biogas and small-scale hydroelectric power sources. In the mandated California state energy system that would be half supplied by green renewables, predicted electric power short falls would be inevitable. It would no longer be just peak hot months of the summer or unusual winter cold snaps creating power blackouts or rolling brownouts.

Gov. Brown’s reflex to cut carbon on behalf of a partisan push for phantom climate imperatives presents a critical challenge to the reliability and affordability of electricity for consumers.
Los Angeles Ecopolitics Examiner

By: mteresa

mteresa — Fri, 01 May 2015 01:25:02 +0000

I am in heaven. Jerry is a fraud. His legacy will be exposed after he is gone, just another RICH egomaniac, who has his image controlled to conceal a sinfully, arrogant real Jerry. Where are all the poor that have personally helped with his hands? Answer, in his press releases. The truth is that he shields himself from the unwashed. Jerry, let me turn around. Wash this.

By: Donkey

Donkey — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:43:27 +0000

In reply to novaks47. Beautifully written!! :)

By: ItUsedToBeNiceHere

ItUsedToBeNiceHere — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:11:35 +0000

The drumbeat to get out of California ASAP is getting louder and faster….

Don’t want to be the last fool left here holding the bag to PAY for all this feel-good liberalism control…

Novaks47 hit the nail right on the head….it’s feel-good governance, for the high-minded liberals….

Hasta la vista, Babies….

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:07:49 +0000

In reply to Richard Rider. There's a story in the Santa Rosa Press- Democrat today about how Lake County has something like the cleanest air in the country. One comment pointed out that's likely because there's few people living there and next to no industry (or jobs for that matter) so it would be a no brainer it would have clean air. I replied that the Governor seems to be trying to do that to the whole state.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:04:24 +0000

In January 2015, California’s CARB market based program to lower carbon emissions, known as “cap and trade”, was expanded to include gas and diesel fuels, which will increase the cost of providing transportation fuel.

California’s 38 million citizens live on an “energy island” with the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Rocky Mountains on the other side. In the past 40 years, California’s population has doubled to its present 38 million but the air is cleaner today than that in the 1970’s.

The huge California economy is very dependent on the continued mobility of its 30 million registered vehicles and the ability of maintaining a fuel supply to that growing fleet. To continue to support the mobile fleet of vehicles that drives the CA economy, Californians will be forced to seek their transportation fuel needs and the by-products from oil to be provided by other states or countries that have less stringent emission guidelines, resulting in an increase in the World’s Green House Gases.

The public remains uninformed about the expansion to the cap and trade program, despite the significant cost impacts to individual motorists, and businesses engaged in transporting goods, and the consumers of those products.

“Fuels under the cap” will have a ripple effect on our state’s economy – costing jobs and increasing the price Californians pay for food, electricity rates, transportation fuels, natural gas rates, and other essential goods and services. California will continue to become MORE expensive and LESS economically competitive.

For low and middle income families, energy costs are now consuming a larger portion of household income comparable to that traditionally spent on major necessities such as housing, food, and health care.

California definitely needs a balance in their sources for energy, but regulators and community leaders need to think broadly to find solutions across the entire energy system, inclusive of renewables, electricity, and natural gas, to meet California’s ambitious environmental goals without severely impacting one of the largest economies in the world located on an energy island.