A bill in the California legislature is designed to give an unelected bureaucracy extreme authority to monitor and control people’s access to transport, all in the name of Gaia.
SB 350 is ultimately a gasoline-rationing act. The bill gives the California Air Resources Board free rein to enact a mandatory 50 percent gasoline and diesel fuel restriction (8 billion gallons annually) by the year 2030.
To meet the mandate, the state air resources board will be able to ration gas, place mobility restrictions on state residents, place surcharges on family mini-vans, trucks and SUVs, and even monitor individuals’ fuel consumption records.
It is amazing how much freedom people are willing to exchange in return for a gay marriage license and free sh-t from the Government.
It’s kind of a weird inversion of the 1981 B-movie ‘The Last Chase,’ in which cars have been outlawed everywhere except California. I guess movie producers in 1981 could not imagine their state would ever fundamentally transform from a free state to a dystopia.
Stalin, Mao, and Lenin couldn’t be happier to see how California is turning out.
You would think they might have learned something from the water debacle, but I guess not.
“Ihr Ausweis bitte“
And we wonder why people didn’t do anything to stop the Hitler’s and Mao’s and Lenin’s earlier? That’s because those men were feeding the fears of the populace and the populace willingly submitted until it was too late.
The California Air Resources Board [CARB], an unelected group of bureaucrats, will be given full authority to meet the restriction mandate in any way its members see fit with no oversight permitted by our elected representatives.
Legislators that propose agencies and regulations exempt from legislative (and, in some cases judicial) oversight are raping the Constitution. I think Dodd-Frank created such an agency within the Fed. These people should be removed from office immediately. CA voters can recall politicians from office – they should avail themselves of that power.
It’s not that I think the average legislator is very smart but they are sneaky and mendacious. Entitlements allow them to purchase votes today that require future pols to screw future taxpayers; exemption from oversight allows imposition of onerous agendas with no accountability (“Sorry – it’s out of our hands.”)
Having lived near San Diego (and enjoyed the climate) for a couple of years, I wonder if these people give any thought as to the impact of fuel cell vehicles: millions of little humidifiers running, day and night, up and down the coast. At some point, summer in LA will be similar to summer in Houston or Dallas.
I also have to wonder what Californians will do if neighboring states decide that they no longer want to host power plants that export electricity to California.
Tyranny arrived in America waving a rainbow flag and carrying a volume of EPA regulations.
Well, let’s see how long that lasts. Once the wealthy owners of Teslas realize that they no longer have anyone one to take care of the ho hum humdrum everyday crap — from cleaning toilets to waiting tables to teaching kids to secretarial work — because no one can afford to commute from where they are forced to live to where the Tesla owners want then to work.
Well, the Tesla owners could always go back to the British aristocracy’s solution to the “Help Problem”, have them live in the attic and basement of the Manor with one afternoon a week “off”. “Zoning Codes be-damned…”
How many gardeners can you fit in the loft over the garage?
That should make for an exodus of about another oh…250,000 people?
Oh and add to this the LA city council plan to remove as much as 50% of lane capacity on major streets for bike and bus lanes.
Born and raised here and lived here all my life except two years. Now actively thinking about leaving.
If you like the year-round warm weather, move to Arizona or Florida. Florida would be better due to the lack of income tax.
It’s amusing how the creative types prided themselves on being counter-cultural and anticensorship in the 60s and 70s, but now fully embrace censorship as a moral imperative in the 10s.
I bet the fine print excludes Hollywood.
Boy did this mayor ever pay for a $100 male escort.
http://www.rt.com/usa/312296-mayor-patronizes-HIV-prostitute/
WTF. I’d have paid Wigle-Steven $100 NOT to have sex with anyone. **shudder**
Batesville, Indiana is that hard-up for quality male sex-workers?
Notice how the mayor’s party affiliation was not stated. Anyone want to guess why?
Governor Moonbeam (v2.0) has already thought of that: he’s signed legislation to require not only the majority of electrical power consumed in California in the coming years to be produced from within the state, but to also come from renewable sources.
So my state (which will always be an energy exporting state) is already having its wind energy go mostly to the Golden State, but in the future it will go elsewhere (hello, Las Vegas).
Bad news for all those Tesla drivers, who will presumably be forced to renovate their homes with solar panel siding in order to drive a few blocks every day before the batteries discharge; good news for those of us who don’t want more high power transmission lines that only Donald Trump could love.