SACRAMENTO – Large campuses in the University of California and California State University systems are bracing for the implementation of new state rules that will force them to cut carbon emissions or pay as much as $28 million a year to offset their greenhouse gases.Come on, lefties! Welcome to your Green nirvana, now pay up. Sure, it's a regressive tax that will disproportionally impact students, researchers, and the sick. But well crafted Progressive legislation never has unintended consequences, so quit yer bitching.
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"The University supports the creation of a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, but is concerned that it is being disproportionately impacted by the proposed cap-and-trade rule and that its compliance costs will ultimately be borne by students, researchers, and patients to the detriment of teaching, research, and healthcare activities," wrote Anthony Garvin of the UC Office of the president in a 2010 letter to the California Air Resources Board, the entity responsible for implementing AB 32.
And the article delightfully slips the knife in to the hilt, in paragraph 2:
For years, businesspeople have been complaining that the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as Assembly Bill 32, will decimate California's economy and force companies to move out of state.Maybe the University of California system can move to Texas like all those businesses are. And the absolute best part of the whole hoist on their own petard thing?
At this point, no one knows what the going rate for carbon credits will be because the market hasn't been established yet. But assuming a cost of $10 to $40 per credit, several public campuses could face multi-million dollar bills.Six years after the statute passed, nobody knows what it will cost. That's one righteous display of Progressive Intelligence, right there.
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6 comments:
California is the first state that will be brought to it's knees by agenda 21. Wait until they try and force every other state to adopt their insane destructive policies out of fairness.
Thank god I never moved to California. Wow, that was a close call.
Carbon trading was never intended to have an environmental effect. It was always and only intended to transfer tons of money to the big investors.
The Goldman Sachs doesn't care if the fees come from rich or poor, as long as they get more money.
Look into the Chicago Climate Exchange's history and Joel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin. A Marxist completely dedicated to the destruction of the west - as long as he can make a few billion himself. The gulags ain't so bad when you're in charge.
Well, thanks all the same, we don't want the UC system here.
Perhaps they will have to lay off some of those progressive UC professors to offset their carbon credit costs. Wouldn't fewer gas bags bloviating about global warming on the UC campuses reduce their CO2 emissions?
I just wish the stupid CA's would stay there and not infect the rest of the US with their mentality.
In the old days, socialists promised prosperity for the working man. Today they promise "sustainability", which is another word for poverty.
If you can't deliver the goods, deliver something bad and call it a good.
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