Comments on: Cap-and-trade carbon tax showdown looms https://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/12/cap-trade-carbon-tax-showdown-looms/ Tue, 16 Aug 2016 23:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Spurwing Plover https://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/12/cap-trade-carbon-tax-showdown-looms/#comment-122358 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 23:07:58 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=90408#comment-122358 Im in favor of a Hot Air Tax to be paid by the various ec-freak groups and hollywood idiots and politicians pushing this eco-wacko bull kaka on us all

]]> By: eck https://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/12/cap-trade-carbon-tax-showdown-looms/#comment-122342 Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:12:57 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=90408#comment-122342 The loonies reign! Brown’s gone off the reservation on this, so called “greenhouse gas emergency”. There is no, I repeat no, evidence that man-made CO2 emissions have any significant effect upon the small amount of warming of the earth. Jerry has “got the religion”, I guess.

]]> By: Queeg https://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/12/cap-trade-carbon-tax-showdown-looms/#comment-122340 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:34:58 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=90408#comment-122340 Comrades

Promised free things charged like a flat tax on essentials needed by the masses. Publicans love it…..not for the kids…..for geezer government worker pensions.

]]> By: Ron https://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/12/cap-trade-carbon-tax-showdown-looms/#comment-122338 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:01:59 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=90408#comment-122338 AB32 was signed into law in 2006 at a time when CA was contributing 1% to the world’s greenhouse gases, now, a decade later, according to the California Energy Commission we still contribute a miniscule 1 per cent. The cap &trade program that has hit the citizens’ pocketbooks for more than $7 Billion dollars to fund a multitude of governmental pet projects, has had little to no impact on the reduction of California’s contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions.

The environmental crusaders are also unaware that wind and solar are only able to provide intermittent electricity to the grid, but cannot provide the oil or the oil by-products that are the basis of every component of modern civilizations’ industries and infrastructures.
Maybe it’s karma that the cash cow of the cap & trade “fees” may be dying, as CARB avoids the transparency that the program has done little in 10 years to reduce California’s 1% contribution to the World’s Green House gases.

Yet, the state, by avoiding transparency of the results of the California emissions crusade remains on ago-it-alone crusade to micro manage the California emissions that generates billions of dollars for the government at the expense of businesses and the financially challenged. With numerous state government agencies there is a feeding frenzy on getting a piece of the lucrative cap and trade “fee” revenue.

The public, especially the homeless and poor that are disproportionally bearing the burden for the emissions crusade efforts of the AQMD deserves to know if there is any progress over the last decade in reducing California’s 1% contribution to the world’s greenhouse gases.

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