Dear Ahnold,
you ungrateful, ignorant chunk of Kennedy meat
“Imagine [sheesh I hate when sentences start that way...] Imagine a country where carbon becomes a new currency. We carry bank cards that store both pounds and carbon points. When we buy electricity, gas and fuel, we use our carbon points, as well as pounds. To help reduce carbon emissions, the Government would set limits on the amount of carbon that could be used.”
“Imagine your neighbourhood. Each neighbour receives the same free entitlement to a certain number of carbon points. The family next door has an SUV and realise they are going to have to buy more carbon points. So instead they decide to trade in the SUV for a hybrid car. They save 2.2 tonnes of carbon each year. They then sell their carbon points back to the bank and share the dividends of environmental growth."
Imagine the government having its nose up your sleeve in every activity you do. Well, hey—that’s Britain,eh? Poor sots in that Dhimmi Socialist hell…
uh oh.
July 31 (Bloomberg)—British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to create a market for trading carbon emissions between the U.K. and the most populous U.S. state, as both leaders aim to encourage energy- efficient technologies.
...Britain has signed up to the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme, and Kelly said authorities will look at applying some of its principles in California and even consider ways of including the state in the EU program.
I think not.
As the government controls the supply of permits to emit carbon, limiting their supply can discourage the burning of oil and coal that in turn generates carbon dioxide, which scientists blame for global warming. The system benefits nuclear and wind energy that produce no carbon dioxide.
So Ahnold just signed us on for more coal powered electric plants. [BTW, CA doesn’t mine coal; we gotta drag it in by train. Lollypop-powered trains, I’m sure.] See, we can’t have nuclear plants—even though the Frentch can do it, which proves a ‘tarded macaque can do it—because we have enviro-Nazis earthquakes.
And interestingly enough,
...the EU is failing to meet the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon-dioxide emission standards. Rather than help protect the environment, the trading system has encouraged increases in electricity prices of more than 50 percent and record profits for RWE AG and other utilities.
Wow. It’s a socialist’s dream; throw a monkey-wrench into the economy, bring every aspect of the economy under government control in one fell swoop, re-distribute wealth among the citizenry and generally be an intrusive PITA to each and every one.
Phil Ange-who?
*urp*
Maybe it would be just as well if we elect Phil Ange-whatsisname. That would bring California to the brink of collapse (where Gray Davis almost had it), then 4 years down the road maybe somebody real will show up.
No matter what, California is going down the .... down the something or other.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/01/06 at 11:05 AM
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