Somehow, if something goes against any liberal/enviro-wacko idea around here, it's automatically crazy. :rolleyes: Let's look at some facts.
What is Proposition 23? The official initiative statute is:
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Proposition 8 suspends implementation of air pollution control law (AB32) requiring major sources of emissions to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, until unemployment drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.
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Prop. 23 is fighting against another global warming law that will cost the jobs of over a million workers. People against prop. 23 are supporting the implementation of AB32, which states that it will (quote)
"...reduce California greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to 1990 levels by 2020 and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050." In the process, however, according to CARB's
(the California Air Resources Board's) Economic Allocation and Advisory Committee (quote),
"AB32 will cause California households to face higher prices both directly for electricity, natural gas, and gasoline, and indirectly as businesses pass costs for GHG reduction on to consumers." Directly according to CARB's most recent analysis, they acknowledged that AB32 could
not "change the course of climate change."
The bill is a useless, price-racking environmentalist attempt to receive more money from Californians, which is exactly what they don't need right now. California already has a $20 billion deficit. Prop. 23 is pretty much the solution they have to this crisis. If AB32 were to take hold, it's estimated that the average California household will pay an additional $3,800 per year in higher AB32 costs. This is, again, according to CARB. (Does Cameron look at the facts at all? :S)
Let us remember that California has the most strict environmental laws in the U.S. already. Prop. 23 will not abate or remove the hundreds of laws that already protect the environment, reduce air pollution, etc. etc., protecting Californian health. Prop. 23 is only against AB32, which applies only to greenhouse gas emissions. CARB (again) has stated that AB32 has (quote),
"no direct public health impacts."
However, the statute is only a suspension on AB32 until further notice. Once unemployment is under 5.5% (as it says), the suspention will be lifted. Right now, California simply cannot afford AB32. Maybe Ah-nold and his idiot tactics as governor (which put California under staggering multi-billion-dollar debt, worse than it was in before) agrees with self-proclaimed eco-terrorist Cameron that the people of the state do not matter, but I think they do. And the California State Firefighters' Association, as well as the California Small Business Association, the National Tax Limitation Committee, and many others.
Who's wearing tinfoil now? :)
