Comments on: California push for coal divestment raises concerns

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:03:12 +0000

Seems that Dave Jones has boarded the Tom Steyer emissions crusade. Tom Steyer made his fortune with Farallon Capital Management with successful investments in overseas coal mines and coal fired power plants and now that he has reaped the financial rewards from the fossil fuels industry, he now seeks to make another fortune on “green energy”. His fossil fuels fortune is now being parlayed to heavy solar investments, thus his crusade to stall the fossil fuel sector. He was a major investor in a Kinder Morgan pipeline that was competing against the Keystone Pipeline, thus he opposes the Keystone for his financial benefits. He may be a wise investor, but many deem his message today as hypocritical.

The HYPOCRITIC Tom Steyer is part of the 1% that pays 50% of all California state income taxes. The 1% that can afford most anything. His “off oil” crusade against the one industry that provides all the products and chemicals to EVERY infrastructure and EVERY industry that supports our lifestyle, will impact the financially challenged more than the 1%. Shifting the California energy needs for our 38 million citizens, out of California to other States or Countries, will net an increase in costs to the financially challenged to maintain the elements of our basic lifestyle, and increase the world’s greenhouse gasses from afar from locations with significantly less environmental controls.

The other 99% of our 38 million citizens may be the ones that have registered the 97% of the 32 million registered vehicles that are fossil fuel driven and generally more affordable than the alternative energy driven vehicles that the 1% can afford. The financially challenged includes: 1) nearly 25% of Californians 38 million live below the poverty line. 2) California has more than 33% of the nation’s welfare recipients, 3) California is home to 12% of the nation’s population, but startlingly 21% of the nation’s homeless population, 4) The majority of California renters: Nearly 3 million households – pay more than 30% of their income toward rent, 5) Roughly – 1.5 million households pay more than 50% of their income toward rent.

Steyers’s crusade is financially good for Steyer, but bad for 99% of California.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:54:42 +0000

All those idiots who oppose fracking,drilling coal mining the Keep it in the ground jerks all need to go live in a dank,drafty bug and bat infested cave all winter long lets see how they like living a real primative and not the hollywood ones their so used to while watching crap like AVATAR

By: milton

milton — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:38:51 +0000

Dave Jones can lick my ass after a big crap on May 6th. Beans, hot sauce, carnitas, tequila, lots of modelo….blow dry his hair with my steamy sulfiric gas.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 23:57:49 +0000

Comrades

Spent two weeks in Spain early this year. The country is a run down disaster due to unemployment, high green energy costs, socialist tilt in housing and small business. Their tourist PR is a FRAUD…….most notable most residents do not use much home electricity due to cost. They live in gulag seedy apartment houses that look like California tear downs. Beware of Tapas bars…they put tapas out in morning and they sit in unrefrigerated counter cases or in the open for mucho hours. Many places have hygiene problems, and, frankly, the food quality is marginal…..hours of operation random and highly inconvenient, gas stations scarce, most hotels look like from works projects in the 1970’s.

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:28:30 +0000

In reply to Dork.

Can you say AB 32? As in 32 ways to screw the people of Ca.
Yep, the Democrats are controlling everything in this state, and look what we have. DEBT so far up our patooties, we may never be able to climb out. They learned how to TAX the air we breathe……
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr……………

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:24:45 +0000

Like one Presidential candidate has said, shut down all coal operations and terminate the employees, as all things green must crush those that don’t believe in Global Cooling, or is it Global Warming, or is it Climate Change??? It is called weather………….
These so called leaders and do-gooders are playing politics with American. Just ask anybody who recently saw their PG&E bill!
IT SUCKS, and it is all POLITICS from one side called DEMS.
VOTE ALL OF THEM OUT!

By: JPR11

JPR11 — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:03:27 +0000

Only in Socialist CA

By: Queeg

Queeg — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:40:23 +0000

Comrades

Your public servants become Commissars……expanding the ruling class. So familiar this this command decision making…..

By: Dork

Dork — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:44:09 +0000

He has vowed to publicize – some say “shame” – insurance companies that don’t comply with the request

We used to Call this FELONY EXTORTION