Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:06:37 PM
Ah, California. We’re neutering marriage, we’re spending like crazy to cater to the needs of Mexico’s people, we’re telling restaurants they can’t use trans fats, we’re suing the EPA because they aren’t being dictatorial, we’re dehydrating for the sake of a fish, and now we’re screwing up the power system again – again because of a judge. Los Angeles Times staff writer Margot Roosevelt reports:
The region's long-term plans to generate electricity to serve a growing population and to replace decades-old dirty plants were thrown into disarray this week, when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that local authorities had failed to do the necessary environmental and health analyses.
Officials from the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which encompasses Orange County and large swaths of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, warned of likely "blackouts and brownouts" if the plants are not built.
We can all sit around dehydrated in the dark, eating bean sprouts.. Hey, as long as the illegal aliens and homosexuality advocates are happy.
Years ago, the air district set aside what it called Priority Reserve credits so that projects such as hospitals and police stations could be built even if they added to the region's pollution. Last year, the district, lobbied by a host of former politicians, decided to sell the credits to energy companies for $420 million: about half the market value, according to environmentalists' calculations.
Environmental and community groups said Wednesday that they would sue in federal court to nullify such credits.
So these entities go though all the trouble to buy and trade credits to conform to regulations, and then some whackos sue to stop progress entirely. Will anyone get refunds on the credits?
Environmentalists and many industry experts say that much of the region's demand can be met through conservation and renewable energy.
It’d be easier to “conserve” if we had border control.
But no one knows how much could be supplied by wind farms, geothermal energy, solar rooftop facilities or large solar plants, many of which are proposed in fragile desert areas.
If something takes more energy to set up and maintain than it produces, it is a net loss. The whackos also won’t accept anything that inconveniences any animals or plants or changes the look of an area, or will cause anyone to have to drive anywhere to maintain it or operate it.
Meanwhile, California, which has term limits, will be electing a new Governor in 2010, and lieutenant governor John Garamendi is throwing his hat into the ring. He could hardly be worse than the other Democrat candidates.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began an exploratory bid a month ago.
You know, the guy who committed adultery with a staff member’s wife and engineered marriage neutering and overturning the popular vote?
Other prominent Democrats said to be contemplating the race include Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and former state controller Steve Westly.
“Moonbeam” Brown has been Governor before. It wouldn't be pretty if he was again.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's name has also been mentioned.
Ah, good ol’ reconquistador adulterer Tony Villar, who is so busy campaigning for Obama after campaigning for HRC, and so busy holding photo ops, that he barely has enough time to push for higher taxes in Los Angeles.
On the Republican side, Steve Poizner, who succeeded Garamendi as state insurance commissioner in 2006, is also said to be considering the race. Other names circulating from that party are two former executives of Silicon Valley companies: Meg Whitman, who was at Ebay, and Carly Fiorina, who headed Hewlett-Packard.
It’ll be very hard for a real Republican to be elected. The statewide elections are dominated by the Big Labor socialists and homosexuality activists in Los Angeles and San Francisco. A really great state is being strangled by discouraging business, inviting illegal aliens, and devaluing the natural family. A little bit more slowly with the current Governor than with the previous one, but the slide is likely to accelerate after the 2010 election.