Goofy ideas always seem to start in California, and this one is no exception.
Drivers in Berkeley, California may soon get a stern warning about the impact of carbon emissions on the environment every time they fill up at the gas pump.
As the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, officials in the famously progressive city will consider a proposal to require gas stations to affix stickers warning that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to climate change and its adverse effects. If approved, the measure would make Berkeley the first American city to mandate such warnings.
The design for the stickers, which was approved by two city environmental panels, is modeled after warnings on cigarettes. The warning would remind drivers that the state of California considers rising greenhouse gas levels to be a threat to the public’s health and safety.
The “Beyond The Pump” campaign has been led by 350 Bay Area, a grassroots environmental group.
It is nothing but government-mandated propaganda.
Here’s the warning label:
I don’t think the government should have a monopoly in matters of opinion. Alternate opinions should be allowed.
Otherwise, I think vandalism is appropriate response. (With the above, they might start with the word “visable.”)
To give an idea of how Stalinesque these control freaks are, check out their argument for “creating demand”:
Creating Demand for Non/Very Low-Carbon Transportation
FACT: California is spending billions to create alternative options to driving a gas guzzling car. (buses, rail, denser housing, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, congestion pricing, electric car credits). These investments are going to expand rapidly in coming decades and will grow the supply side of greener mobility options for Californians.
CHALLENGE: Simultaneously, nothing is being planned for the demand side of the equation. While all of the efforts therefore are being focused on creating the ‘greenest party on the planet’, nothing is being spent on actually ‘inviting’ the guests. We need to start priming the pump by creating DEMAND for green transportation options now. If we create the infrastructure but don’t get the corresponding demand, we will be crushed by the very cost of maintaining that service. With every dollar being precious, we can’t afford to have empty buses statewide.
Invited? Do these fools actually think that supply will create demand? I doubt it. I think that in their view, “creating demand” means simply that whether you like it or not, you should be made to ride a bike, made to live in dense housing, and made to ride the bus.
Or else.
No wonder productive people are leaving California.
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7 responses to “Gasoline releases CO2? So does coal, and so does breathing!”
Agreed, vandalism is an appropriate response. If they start appearing in my part of California be assured of that.
And on the other hand, where else but California will you find an event like Gays, Guns, and Drag Queens? Staring Vivian Vicious (“You don’t want to mess with Miss Vivian”) the event will be held at the LAX gun range along with Gays With Guns and the Pink Pistols. Also featuring Marta BearChu, Salina EsTitties, Holly Trinity, and Vageenah Hurtz, it should be a blast.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/gays-guns-and-drag-queens
Thanks to Claire Wolfe at http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/ for the link.
If supply creates demand…
Let’s run a sewage main through their living room. Soon they’ll be clamoring for more.
A number of people including
http://joannenova.com.au/
and
http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews13No10.pdf
Think we are headed for a little ice age or are already in one.
If the predictions are correct (I think it is likely) the CO2 crazies are in for a world of hurt and “global warming” will become an epithet.
“Do these fools actually think that supply will create demand?”
I’ve had enough discussions with people who believe that is does, to think these fools do too.
@Frank
Living in California is like living in a bowl of granola – what ain’t fruits and nuts is flakes.
This isn’t a derogatory statement, I’m merely being descriptive. 😉 Besides, I like granola.
Well, a good entrepeneur notices where a supply would be met with a demand, like the guy who invented the Ginsu, but CA’s “supply” is all stuff that needs tax dollars because there is not enough demand.
I would like to see those put on pumps in the northern tier of states and places like Russia.
Watch gas use skyrocket.
Randy, I’ve made plans to leave California several times but then reconsider knowing what I’d miss. Face it, the rest of the country is boring.